Example sentences for: profanity

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

  • Other shows excise fighting and profanity: Springer promotes it.

  • The Delicate Art of Profanity

  • 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.”

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

  • There are a couple of credible candidates: The four-letter word for "vagina" remains off-limits in polite conversation (although that has more to do with feminism than with profanity), and the slang expression for those who engage in oral sex with males is not yet acceptable by the standards of office-meeting etiquette.


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