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How to use sacrilegious in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word sacrilegious? Here are some examples.

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It is unlawful to prohibit immoral or sacrilegious films in a public school.
In the U.S., the frequency with which religious groups have waged campaigns over supposedly sacrilegious paintings is starting to get tiring.
However, the sacrilegious acts received little coverage in the West, particularly in the United States.
It shouldn't take such an enormous grassroots effort to prevent sacrilegious exploitation of holy places.
I suspect that it is probably sacrilegious or even blasphemous to suggest such a thing.
Questioning doctrine and the trappings of religion doesn't mean that Jones' work should be read as sacrilegious or spiritually ungrounded.
The priestesses and priests turning towards the setting sun, the dwelling of the infernal gods, devoted with curses the sacrilegious wretch.
It was at once the most sacrilegious and yet mystic moment many of them had ever experienced.
It's kind of sacrilegious, a contradiction of a contract with your audience.
I think it would be regarded as sacrilegious to bomb the World Heritage sites of Egypt, but I am not sure we have the same scruples about Iraq.
It must be considered sacrilegious for a Raider fan not to wear a black shirt.
Postmodern reinvention, including Rambo as Egypt's Pharaoh, could be seen as irreverent, even sacrilegious.
This seems to me a mistake, as Balthus shared nothing of the Surrealists' irreverent, even sacrilegious tendencies.
But what can be said of a sinner or a sacrilegious person who also would place his hand on the Eucharist?
Almost everyone fails on them: supersede, naphtha, tranquillity, liquefy, sacrilegious, kimono, paraffin, rarefy, picnicking, battalion.
Stealing one, contrary to what you might expect, is anything but sacrilegious.
Is it really sacrilegious, they ask, especially now that the disappeared vultures have tolled the knell of the ancient, ordained system?
A signpost near the kangaroos, making the sacrilegious claim that the continents shifted 40m years ago, used to be defaced almost daily.
Some religious sisters were robbed by persons they had helped, without forgetting injuries and sacrilegious acts.
My heart is so closed and hostile that I regard it as virtually sacrilegious.
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Examples from Classical Literature
There is no distinction we can make, that can free the acknowledger from being a partaker of this sacrilegious robbing of God.
How are we to reconcile this sacrilegious classification with the dogmas of the church, which canonize two blacks, viz.
Not only was such an act sacrilegious in its nature, but it was fraught with peril.
This does not imply that it is irreligious, nor unreligious, nor sacrilegious.
I am through with the sacrilegious beast as soon as he is dead.
Their eyes, dilating with horror, followed his sacrilegious hand.
What miscreant hero had dared perform this sacrilegious exploit?
Are these the laws that it is natural to love, and sacrilegious to invade?
I said I looked upon it as a sacrilegious profanation to reward treachery, perhaps crime.
For it is impossible, as well as sacrilegious, to be as quick as Baedeker.
The sacrilegious hands of the British soldiers had torn it down, and kindled their barrack fires with the fragments.
Now, these two luminaries are objects of veneration to the African tribes, and they determined to oppose so sacrilegious an enterprise.
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