Example sentences for: profane

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

  • One could point out, in arguing against the safety-valve theory, that as America has grown more profane in the past 30 years, it has also grown more violent, not less.

  • Dominating the Umbrian countryside from its 494-m (1,600-ft) hill, Perugia is emphatically more secular and more profane than its mystical Umbrian neighbor Assisi.

  • 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.

  • Edokko quarrel in a language all their own, an earthy local dialect as profane and expressive as Brooklynese.


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