How to Use profanity in a Sentence

profanity

noun

• The comic uses too much profanity.
• I have never heard my father utter a single profanity.
• My mom will not tolerate profanity.
• So for Rapp’s play script, the Socs won’t be villains and there is a good amount of profanity.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Feb. 2023
• Some of the building’s windows had been smashed and profanities scrawled on the walls.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2025
• One of the men walks up to Schnabel, yelling profanities.
  — Lauren Izso, Brahim Dahman and Ibrahim Hazboun, CNN, 4 Feb. 2024
• But as De Sousa spoke, a person can be heard on one of the videos yelling profanities.
  — Ian Duncan, baltimoresun.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• The man, using a profanity, told the worker to back off.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 11 July 2020
• As far as pastimes go, there are few things that thrill the British more than the art of creative profanity.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 13 July 2018
• For his bravado and, at times, profanity, Clark appeared to have a keen sense of right and wrong.
  — John Caniglia, cleveland, 21 Mar. 2021
• The jury heard Daniel yell profanities and call his ex-wife names.
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 6 Dec. 2019
• Over the weekend, he's dropped a lot of profanities in his rallies.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2024
• Howell read from many of the messages, using the same profanity the men had.
  — Tom Jackman, Anchorage Daily News, 16 July 2022
• As the crowd booed loudly and shouted profanities at him, Green yelled right back.
  — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Apr. 2023
• And with Stephen’s plays, as much profanity as there is, there’s a tremendous amount of care for the other person.
  — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2021
• His candor and profanity are traits that worked well for Biden.
  — Richard Morgan, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2019
• Rogers was equally vocal about the things that mattered to him; about doing the right thing; and about the use of profanity in language.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 12 Sep. 2021
• She is seen in the video confronting the officers, trying to get the officers to cease the search while yelling profanities.
  — Michael Roppolo, CBS News, 23 Aug. 2023
• The superstar singer asked that the lyrics that contained profanity be changed.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 29 Sep. 2022
• After the first show, with all of that profanity out there, Steve was very concerned about the league office’s response to it.
  — Peter King, SI.com, 18 Feb. 2018
• Trump reversed course by the end of that week and used profanity to insult countries in Africa and the Caribbean.
  — Steven T. Dennis, Fortune, 7 June 2019
• Still, Lynch's use of that word and other profanity during the show didn't sit well with Manning.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Oct. 2021
• Tribou took him to task for the profanity in his books, but kept them on the school reading list nonetheless.
  — Steve Straessle, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2020
• There’s a limit, but a little profanity can go a long way to getting your point across.
  — WSJ, 29 May 2022
• Pirone spotted Grant walking between the train cars and used profanity to order him to get off the train, the report says.
  — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 19 Aug. 2021
• But the rapper uses the N word and other profanity throughout the track.
  — Araceli Cruz, Teen Vogue, 9 May 2018
• Essentially the league asked Drake to cool it with the profanity.
  — Demetrio Teniente, Houston Chronicle, 3 May 2018
• Some profanity and a brief glimpse of Hannah’s backside were too hot for Disney to handle at the time.
  — WIRED, 23 Sep. 2022
• Grines’ group continued to yell profanities and record her with their phones, the report said.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2019
• Long before that, our Founding Fathers knew the value of profanity.
  — Christian Schneider, National Review, 3 Apr. 2025