Example sentences for: profane

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

  • Some Bevilacquas drank even less water than their wineloving neighbors ( Bevivinos may have been even more intemperate); the spiritual love of some Amantis was directed toward women other than their wives and the patronymic form D'Amanti given to the children of such unions; some Santillis and Salvos were notably profane; and some Carideos and Donadios were assumed to be dear to or given by God because no one else stepped forward to explain how they came to be left on the steps of convents or monasteries.

  • I have long dream'd of such a kind of man, So surfeit-swell'd, so old and so profane; But, being awaked, I do despise my dream.

  • His savage, profane descriptions of Nixon, his mockery of Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey, his characterization of any enemy as a "Nazi" or "the fourth Reich" or "the sixth Reich" enlivened (and, yes, debased) political debate.

  • Talking pictures led to precise provisions in the American Production Code: “Pointed profanity [this includes the words God, Lord, Jesus, Christ --unless used reverently-- Hell, damn, Gawd ], or every other profane or vulgar expression, however used, is banned.”

  • E. "Using profane or obscene language or gestures"


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