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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.
Miscellany: Rupert Murdoch bought control of Pat Robertson's cable channel--"a merger of the sacred and profane," cracked the New York Times . Alex Kelly , the rich kid who spent eight years resort-hopping in Europe to evade rape charges in the United States, was finally convicted.
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.
Today we use billingsgate to mean any kind of profane and abusive talk or language.
To profane something, in other words, one must believe in it.