How to Use profane in a Sentence

profane

adjective

• Even though the police said all kind of profane things to him.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 27 Jan. 2023
• Garrett is then told more about the show and his profane side that comes through.
  — Drew Davison, star-telegram, 24 Apr. 2018
• The era’s odd spate of profane bat knob cards somehow doesn’t end there, though.
  — Tyler Holzhammer, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2026
• Marziano walked back to his patrol car and called Williams a profane name, the footage showed.
  — Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post, 6 Sep. 2019
• What is profane is a 17-month-old baby being shot in the face.
  — CBS News, 2 Sep. 2019
• Its dialogue isn’t faster, more profane, or more hyped than other movies.
  — Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• Reddit’s profane, greedy traders are shaking up the stock market.
  — Adam Blenford, Bloomberg.com, 26 Feb. 2020
• Brown bragged about the incident in profane text messages that are copied in the lawsuit.
  — Ben Shpigel, SFChronicle.com, 10 Sep. 2019
• Quite a lot of profane language’’ came next, Bennett said with a chuckle.
  — Ben Guarino, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• Cooley told his son, who had no clue his suggestion sounded profane.
  — Carly Mallenbaum, USA TODAY, 22 June 2019
• The group’s furious and profane lyrics were bolstered by Dre’s ear for the bounce of funk.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2021
• What is profane is losing the life of a high school student in that shooting yesterday.
  — CBS News, 2 Sep. 2019
• Redmond continued to be loud and profane in the parking lot of the grocery store.
  — Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2018
• Wembanyama heard boos — and profane chants — from Knicks fans throughout the evening.
  — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 9 June 2026
• This is all, of course, a provocation, a way of merging the sacred and profane, and asking which is which.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 12 May 2026
• The appeals court said that the comments were neither threatening nor profane.
  — Greg Moran, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2023
• The scene forever changed the lyrics of Tyler’s hit to something much more profane, but no less yearning.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
• Clever and non-profane tee-to-green commentary should be allowed, just not when a player is standing over his ball.
  — Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
• Pretty and profane, funny and frank, Paul amassed a large following.
  — Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2026
• Gijón is a port town, working-class and occasionally profane, but open to the sea and new ideas.
  — Chiara Goia, National Geographic, 14 Dec. 2019
• People have attacked me on social media, threatened my life, and flooded my phone with profane calls.
  — Kristine Parks, Fox News, 21 July 2023
• The caption was simple, profane, but full of the emotion and passion that has defined his career.
  — Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Aug. 2025
• Ramsey went on a profane rant against media members and threatened one on Twitter.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2019
• But for the family, the sacred place was becoming profane.
  — David Kushner, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2025
• So what if the language is harsher, more profane than Ned Flanders would prefer?
  — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• Gilliam is not contesting states' rights to ban profane, sexualized or vulgar plates.
  — Angele Latham, The Tennessean, 3 Sep. 2025
• Gilliam is not contesting states' rights to ban profane, sexualized or vulgar plates.
  — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2025
• The result is a drama of love and money, of sacred and profane love, of the forces that pull couples together and drive them apart.
  — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2026
• The exchange is too profane to be quoted here, but the combatants are a woman and her foster daughter, and their fight is about a man.
  — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018
• Most people who fire off profane or embarrassing messages do it after a long night of boozing and wake up full of regret.
  — Kathleen Parker, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2026