sacrilege
Example Sentences
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“It would be a sacrilege merely to redecorate it — a word I hate. It must be restored, and that has nothing to do with decoration. That is a question of scholarship.”
From Salon • Jan. 4, 2026
That claim might seem like sacrilege to generations of basketball fans who watched golden eras of the NBA from Wilt/Russell to LeBron/Curry.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025
The lorry motors on, the party continues and a sacrilege is committed.
From BBC • Dec. 5, 2023
And while it may be sacrilege to call Isabella Rossellini and Hope Davis superfluous, as an anthropology professor and a flamboyant mother, respectively, they are.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2023
For Smith, walking into that barn must have been akin to entering a cathedral; telling Fitzsimmons that he could improve on his work must have felt like sacrilege.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
Vocabulary lists containing sacrilege
Things Fall Apart
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