Example sentences for: profanity

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

  • Dogma's Sacred Profanity

  • When I politely ask the drivers to stop this, they use profanity, ignore me, or threaten violence.

  • The anthropologist Ashley Montagu, whose Anatomy of Swearing , published in 1967, is the definitive modern take on the subject, saw profanity as a safety valve rather than a stimulant, a verbal substitute for physical aggression.

  • On top of all that, the scene where Ralphie (Peter Billingsley) pounds the crap out of the school bully in a flurry of profanity and tears is one of cinema's finest moments.

  • 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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