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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:
Today we use billingsgate to mean any kind of profane and abusive talk or language.
Dramatic arrangements for doing this are famous--the head-flattening, the neck-lengthening, the tooth-filing, the lip-stretching--all the irreversible ways of completing the human body that were called "barbaric" by restless people bent on scientific understanding, political and intellectual enlightenment, or plain old empire, holy and profane.
In that culture, the word "[expletive]" was not only obscene, it was profane, in the original sense: It took an important idea in vain.
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.
E. "Using profane or obscene language or gestures"