Example sentences for: profane

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

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

  • 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.

  • Today we use billingsgate to mean any kind of profane and abusive talk or language.

  • 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.

  • 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.”


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