Example sentences for: profane

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

  • To profane something, in other words, one must believe in it.

  • 2) She reshaped the magazine "in her own image--brainy, Anglophilic, profane and more than a little starstruck" (Richard Lacayo, Time ). 3) She succeeded in her true goal: making herself the center of attention.

  • 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.”

  • 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.


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