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How to use defile in a sentence

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The task for each target is to suppress the enemy with the purpose of facilitating the attack through the defile.
You have threatened, deceived, and tried to defile a princess, and for that you must die.
From every one talked to it is clear that men that defile girls or rape women have no excuse whatsoever.
Just south of the town he took position in a defile, facing south-east with the road through the Wittlewood forest at his back.
We did not want non-Jews to enter our Temple to defile our sacred sites or texts.
This has not been the case recently, as mindless youths disrespect, desecrate and defile the church and its surrounding area.
Down on the floor of Hualapai Canyon we swung right and entered a gradually narrowing, slowly descending defile.
We find imprecations against people who break laws, defile a sanctuary, commit perjury, or pollute a grave, amongst other things.
Walk you not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
He could be accused of trying to defile the work of God by including an ungodly John Mark.
These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashed hands defiles not a man.
The view is mind-boggling, with a precipitous drop into the defile of the Lairig Ghru, the great pass that splits the Cairngorms, linking Aviemore and Braemar.
On the ground itself there is no defile, no gorge, no precipitous mountain pass, nothing which can remotely be called a Gap from the point of view of anybody on the ground.
Marriage is a sacred union between man and woman, and this lot want to defile the sanctitude of our country.
Even if it doesn't end up a national obsession, the US Skins doesn't defile the legacy of the original.
The worst sacrilege of all was to defile the Host of the Eucharist, an act generally punishable by torture and death.
If we claim to be on the same old paths as they, and it didn't defile them, then it won't defile us.
All creations are clean, but only the things that come out of human beings, that is, the sins, defile us.
You will never convert us to your religion and defile our women.
From here a footpath runs north, through a narrow defile between Meall na h-Aodainn Moire and Creag Bhreac past Loch a'Choire and up steep slopes to the summit ridge.
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He dashed into the shelter of the defile, a grim smile playing on his lips.
They thought of the Earth as their mother and would not put anything into it to defile it.
Darkness found the train labouring through the mountainous defile of the hex River.
In the semi-darkness of the rocky defile he could see the lion but indistinctly.
An Ohio regiment, which can also deal with Slade if it catches him, will defile to the left.
Our road ran in the deep defile that lies between the two great bens, Lomond and Venue.
We do not know how to use tobacco in this country, but defile and deteriorate it with malt liquor.
From north to south there is just one highway, so narrow that it is really a defile.
Throckmorton, a werewolf who would defile her if she entered into any compact with him.
In this sheltered defile the weather was moderate and grass was already sprouting more than an inch in height.
I only desired he would lend me two clean shirts, which, having been washed since he wore them, I believed would not so much defile me.
In the course of this the Acarnanians attacked him in a defile.
A scrimmage in a Border Station, A canter down some dark defile Two thousand pounds of education Drops to a ten-rupee jezail.
Then outrages were heaped upon me, and as my soul was not subdued they wished to defile my body forever.
He met us hard by, in our outward march to ambush his advance, and scattered us, like driven deer, through the defile, to the shores of Horican.
The Amandara defile was occupied on both sides by the enemy.
At last it throws its coldling, shining ray on a defile and rests there.
I felt that to seek her presence would be almost to defile her.
The troops will defile by the Namur gate, and meet me there in an hour.
All was in darkness towards that part of the city near the defile.
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