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Six example sentences with desecrate, each labelled with its topic.
Occupying troops desecrated the shrine, and villagers spent the following decade restoring the altar stone by stone.
History
The council passed a bylaw fining anyone who desecrates the memorial garden with paint or discarded rubbish.
Law
Campers who leave fire pits in the burial grove desecrate ground the community has kept undisturbed for centuries.
Environment
The poet accused the translators of desecrating the language, flattening every sacred cadence into plain prose.
Literature
Critics said the mural desecrated the chapel wall, though the priest who commissioned it disagreed.
Art
Guides ask visitors not to desecrate the shrine by climbing the steps in shoes or shouting in the courtyard.
Travel
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