desecrated
Example Sentences
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“I have never desecrated any family heirloom or intruded upon anyone’s private memorial,” she wrote.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026
One middle-aged American man wore a cream dinner jacket to be desecrated as a souvenir.
From BBC • Sep. 24, 2025
In a London auditorium, a work of art is being desecrated.
From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2024
But Audubon was also a slaveholder who opposed abolition and desecrated the graves of Native Americans, a legacy which still causes harm today, Wells said.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 6, 2024
It was easy now to picture what this place would one day become: that sad and desecrated wreck I had first discovered weeks ago.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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