Use "sacrilege" in a sentence

1. "I could be a clone?" she asked, picking up on the very pregnant 'might have been' and worried that she was committing the greatest sacrilege the church knows

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2. Before another song began, I weaved through the throng, aware that all eyes were on me and so moved cautiously to avoid any undue sacrilege

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3. The policy must be as violent as that of Indostan or ancient Egypt (where every man was bound by a principle of religion to follow the occupation of his father, and was supposed to commit the most horrid sacrilege if he changed it for another), which can in any particular employment, and for several generations together, sink either the wages of labour or the profits of stock below their natural rate

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4. It was very deep and far enough from the altar that this didn’t seem a sacrilege

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5. foot soles are plated with it, and it is considered sacrilege of the higher calibres for them to touch

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6. Some think it would be a sacrilege

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7. * Maoris were not considered white folk and thus this statement was seen as sacrilege

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8. ” I chuckled respectfully, but took bets in my mind on how long he would last saying such things, which the Nationalists would surely regard as sacrilege

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9. In the Holy Land though, in His Land and His Domain, it would be sacrilege to utter these words in anything above a whisper

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10. He could not commit such a sacrilege even for his children's sake

11. for this damnable treason and sacrilege, the wizard caused

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12. 6 And whoever was condemned of sacrilege or had committed any other grievous crime there did all men thrust him to death

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13. The north-men came like stinging hornets and spread on all sides like fearful wolves, robbing, violating, committing sacrilege everywhere, ripping and slaughtering my flock of virgin scholars! Alcuin -- behold with pity and tears the shrine of Saint Cuthbert, spattered with the blood of the brides of God, stripped of its ornaments, trampled by the polluted steps of pagan fiends, within fire-black walls once graced by Northumbria's finest art! A place more venerable than all in England was the prey of pagan wretches

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14. “As they celebrated the sacrilege, I became aware my Dancer was with me no longer

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15. And somehow a waiting room without coffee isn’t much of a waiting room—it’s more like sacrilege

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16. And sacrilege, three sins in killing three

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17. “Yeshua, committing sacrilege? But he would never do that

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18. “Oh yeah? He offers bread and wine at meals while calling them his flesh and blood and you don’t call that a sacrilege?”

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19. What she was doing now was to Amin al-Husseini pure sacrilege

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20. ” He carefully surveyed the occupants of the room with his eyes that were like cold fire, searching men’s souls for sin and sacrilege, as he slowly seated himself in the chair and crossed his legs

21. Patricia smirked at that: a Parisian seeing a waitress put a straw in a glass of what appeared to be red wine would have justly screamed sacrilege at that sight

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22. the other side, the destruction of which would have been a sacrilege

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23. It’s no wonder then that when the statues of Zeus were pulled down all over the Roman Empire; its Pagan subjects had earnestly hoped that the Father of their Gods would destroy the Christians for the sacrilege

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24. ” One side chanted the sacrilege against ancestral lineage

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25. ” Scattered and muffled whispers dared to chant the treasonous sacrilege

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26. ‘It’s a sacrilege for females to visit the tombs, but I've never been caught

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27. I said, " It's a sacrilege for females to visit the tombs, but I've never been caught

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28. But to lie to a bishop raised the operation from just a private sin which God would deal with kindly on being asked, to a crime you were punished for if it was a cathedral you did it to, a real crime, the crime of sacrilege

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29. It seemed sacrilege for two strangers

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30. Even now, they’re considered sacred by the Caucasians, and their “killing” and eating is considered the gravest sacrilege

31. Sacrilege, (commit): The crime of violating or profaning sacred things; robbers of temples

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32. 21 Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal? 22 Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege? 23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God? 24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written

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33. Laughing at the truth is a sacrilege

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34. It is a sacrilege against all living things

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35. It is a sacrilege against all life

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36. It is a sacrilege against all of nature

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37. What kind of cultural insanity made them commit such an insane sacrilege upon the biggest statue they ever built? It would have been tantamount to modern Americans disfiguring Mount Rushmore, and replacing its symbolic meaning by wiping off the original faces and replacing them with smaller faces of another species

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38. Archduke Franz Ferdinand had defied this unspoken taboo and married his love and his happy family life was living proof that Love is better than all the Royal privileges and peerages in the world: For committing that sacrilege he had to be killed and destroyed as a living example of familial happiness

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39. 22 Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?

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40. That it would be sacrilege to do otherwise

41. He seemed to him to be conducting himself in a monstrous fashion, to be robbing him in a sort, and almost committing sacrilege

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42. I am really in doubt whether the crime should not be entered under the category of sacrilege rather than theft

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43. He regarded the suggestion that he should act such an undignified part, as a kind of sacrilege

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44. He had been promised! He had committed sacrilege and murder for this reward

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45. To cut them up was sacrilege, he said with uncharacteristic passion

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46. Can you imagine what it means for a sensitive and high-spirited woman to be tied to him for day and night? It is a sacrilege, a crime, a villainy to hold that such a marriage is binding

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47. "I have felt it to be a sacrilege to divert a brain which is capable of the highest original research to any lesser object

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48. Mammy cried out equally loudly at the sacrilege of soldiers being permitted to sleep on Miss Ellen’s rug but Scarlett was firm

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49. It wasn’t the sacrilege of burning a church that had disturbed Sam, so much as the pure waste, because somewhere inside she couldn’t quite accept that life itself was a waste

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50. All day I have been thinking that if she could rise from her grave, she would herself sell the gold which her love for me lavished on this dressingcase; but were I to do so, the act would seem to me a sacrilege

51. The course of the Father Confessor’s arguments ran as follows: ‘Ignorant of the import of what you were undertaking, you made a vow of conjugal fidelity to a man who on his part, by entering the married state without faith in the religious significance of marriage, committed an act of sacrilege

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52. To see a woman of the town spit in the mayor's face was a thing so monstrous that, in his most daring flights of fancy, he would have regarded it as a sacrilege to believe it possible

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53. In 1649 the holy sacrament was profaned on two occasions a few days apart, in two churches in Paris, at Saint-Sulpice and at Saint-Jean en Greve, a rare and frightful sacrilege which set the whole town in an uproar

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54. This was not only murder but sacrilege

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55. And it is SACRILEGE to have it degraded to the level of a baking powder advertisement

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56. It was against this general “confession” that the opponents of “elders” protested, maintaining that it was a profanation of the sacrament of confession, almost a sacrilege, though this was quite a different thing

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57. That this was merely an experiment we can hardly doubt: for if it had been only a question of gastronomic variety, six would have been too few; why only six? Why not thirty? But if we regard it as an experiment, inspired by the fear of committing new sacrilege, then this number six becomes intelligible

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58. He swore he had a stone put up over it with the inscription: ‘Here lies the leg of Collegiate Secretary Lebedeff,’ and on the other side, ‘Rest, beloved ashes, till the morn of joy,’ and that he has a service read over it every year (which is simply sacrilege), and goes to Moscow once a year on purpose

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59. One morning the news of a hideous and revolting sacrilege was all over the town

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60. But what was worse, besides the theft a senseless, scoffing sacrilege had been perpetrated

61. The course of the Father Confessor’s arguments ran as follows: “Ignorant of the import of what you were undertaking, you made a vow of conjugal fidelity to a man who on his part, by entering the married state without faith in the religious significance of marriage, committed an act of sacrilege

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62. I assure gentlemen that I meant to commit no sacrilege

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63. Great God, what sacrilege! Who had intrusted you with the fate of our country, to tempt the Almighty? Who authorized you to lose all there is for the hope of what may be? For centuries past have so many honorable men fought in vain to uphold the old tottering constitution, as you call it? Or were they not true patriots and heroes? Your companions have hissed their persecuted countrymen in the Diet; but do they love their country better than we do, who have shed our blood and sacrificed our interests for her from generation to generation, and even suffered disgrace, if necessary, to keep her in life?—for though that life has been gradually weakened, still it is life

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64. Herrick’s rough kindness seemed to me sacrilege

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65. He had schooled himself during his hurried journey, in order to meet her without emotion, but she was her own protection; to have touched her would have seemed sacrilege

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66. Those who think the war a sacrilege or a crime, might consistently adopt such a course; but we, who know it to be for the maintenance of the just rights of the community, never can

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67. This came to me fragrant with incense and wet with tears—a vial full of odors, which are the prayers of saints—and to use it except with utmost care and earnest supplication seemed like sacrilege

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