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Examples of desecration in a Sentence
the communicants were aghast at the desecration of the altar
Recent Examples of desecration from the Web
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Seven months later, Cheng Chung-tai faces a charge of flag desecration and as many as three years in jail.
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Przybycien is now charged with first-degree murder and desecration of a human body in the death of Jchandra Brown.
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My taxes are paying for this desecration of life — humans, animals, homes, plants, the Earth itself.
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MB: This is a good time to release Survivors Club, with the political situation, the anti-Semitism that's going on, desecration of cemeteries and so forth.
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The desecration came just days after President Trump, at a bizarre and at times counterfactual press conference in Washington, dodged a question about recent instances of anti-Semitism.
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In response, Congress swiftly enacted a federal law against such desecration, but in 1990 the same five-justice majority struck it down, too.
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To be here on the frontlines and to see the desecration of our sacred sites literally erased from the record books is damaging enough to one’s soul and existence.
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Afghans rioted in Mazar-e-Sharif last year when a Florida pastor set the Islamic holy book ablaze, and did the same years ago after a Newsweek report of Koran desecrations at the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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First Known Use of desecration
circa 1717
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