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.
  • Williams said of the profanities that poured from his mouth.
    Adam H. Beasley, miamiherald, 22 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • Karl Johnson makes an excellent Firs, the ancient servant who regrets the freeing of the serfs and who alternates between dignified paeans to the old days and mumbling streams of profanities.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Electronics aside, yelling, heckling and the use of profanity are also direct violations of gallery etiquette and could result in removal from the event.
    Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 12 Apr. 2025

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