Example sentences for: blasphemy

How can you use “blasphemy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Teachers kept problem children in line with corporal punishments that seem positively barbaric today: They tied children to whipping posts and beat them or branded students for their crimes--a "T" for thievery, a "B" for blasphemy.

  • You know there's plenty of blasphemy there.

  • This is no Last Temptation . There are no troubling scenes of lust with Mary Magdalene or, as in a notorious poem that was condemned for blasphemy in England some years ago, with the Roman soldiery.

  • In some cases, murder, mayhem, and, to borrow a tasteless euphemism from social conflict, linguistic cleansing have been aroused by language—not by vituperation, cursing, and blasphemy but simply by being in the wrong place at the wrong time speaking a particular language or dialect.

  • What a letdown, then, to finally see Corpus Christi and encounter neither blasphemy nor artistic courage.


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