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
• One of the men walks up to Schnabel, yelling profanities.
  — Lauren Izso, Brahim Dahman and Ibrahim Hazboun, CNN, 4 Feb. 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
• 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
• There’s a limit, but a little profanity can go a long way to getting your point across.
  — WSJ, 29 May 2022
• Some profanity and a brief glimpse of Hannah’s backside were too hot for Disney to handle at the time.
  — WIRED, 23 Sep. 2022
• The democrat took to twitter Monday evening to defend her use of profanity after the video of her at the Pride event went viral.
  — Lorraine Taylor, Fox News, 28 June 2022
• Students who used profanity and recorders were removed from the game.
  — Quinn Clark, Journal Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2023
• Those sitting behind the bench got quite the education in the art of profanity.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Dec. 2022
• Sure, the profanity has been papered over (sometimes rather colorfully), but the melodies are the same.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 20 June 2023
• There are a lot of asterisks and ‘FMLs,’ and the text language is very much distilled down into acronyms that use profanity.
  — Karen Idelson, Variety, 20 Sep. 2023
• Her husband then took the gun from his wife and pointed it at the couple while screaming profanities at them, police said.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 18 Sep. 2023
• In a moment of levity, the star let various profanities slip mid-speech while the lively crowd laughed and cheered her on.
  — Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 26 Feb. 2023
• A few days before the headstone was to be placed, Camp Township Trustees told them it could not be installed because of the profanity, Lindsay said.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 19 June 2022
• Advertisement One halftime, the coach used a stream of profanities and Robert had enough.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2023
• Both witnesses told police Langkamp was present with the other two men, but Langkamp did not raise his voice or use profanity.
  — Kelli Arseneau, Journal Sentinel, 12 Oct. 2022
• The scuffle reached its apex when Quinones and Williams went jaw-to-jaw, with the Warriors guard repeatedly calling Williams a profanity.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2024
• Many return as mentors, showing others how to pitch a tent, build a campfire and explain there’s no profanity or use of the N-word.
  — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2023
• But, Rasheed recalled, Wonder was turned off by the profanity and violence expressed in the lyrics.
  — Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2022
• Instead, Nichols appeared calm and polite on body-cam footage as Martin used profanity and threatened to knock out the man, records show.
  — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2023
• The joke of Monk’s fake best seller getting retitled into hip-hop profanity is too easy.
  — Armond White, National Review, 15 Dec. 2023
• The video, which contains profanities, has more than 6 million views on TikTok.
  — Doha Madani, NBC News, 30 July 2023
• Lieu is a dynamo, spouting humor, profanity and wisdom in the same breath.
  — Donna Wares, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2024
• This is when profanities largely vanished from print and speech, and polite euphemisms took their place.
  — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 14 June 2023
• In German, profanity is also heavy on plosives, as well as on short vowel sounds.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 6 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024