How to Use obscenity in a Sentence

obscenity

noun

• The author uses obscenity to make a point about the culture.
• Our clothes were drenched to the point that obscenity charges could be levied.
  — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 15 July 2019
• But there’s more than one kind of obscenity in the world, and more than one kind of assault.
  — Pat Beall, Orlando Sentinel, 7 July 2024
• Yet a whiff of pretext surrounds more than a few of the cries of obscenity.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2023
• In 2004, the charges were dropped in exchange for a guilty plea to a lesser obscenity charge.
  — Laura Zornosa, Time, 31 July 2023
• One agent is heard on video shouting an obscenity as a child jumps out of the horse’s path.
  — Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2021
• The man responded that the deputy should pay his bill and used an obscenity.
  — Kate Brumback, Star Tribune, 27 Apr. 2021
• The video is filled with racist statements and obscenities.
  — John Sharp, AL.com, 1 Nov. 2017
• As Roth said many times himself, obscenity was not a new thing in 1969.
  — Christopher Shea, Vox, 25 May 2018
• The man yelled obscenities and ignored the trooper's orders to turn his SUV around.
  — Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press, 26 Aug. 2019
• But none of this should be taken as proof that there was no concept of obscenity in the Middle Ages.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 4 May 2020
• Peirez used obscenities when complaining about being in the back of the plane.
  — Marwa Eltagouri, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2018
• The girls wore trash bags over bikinis and wrestled on tarps with boys yelling obscenities.
  — OregonLive.com, 22 Dec. 2017
• While attending the verdict via video link, Ms. Nyanzi screamed obscenities at the court and bared her breasts in protest.
  — Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2020
• Police found the suspect had written an obscenity in dirt and tied a shopping cart to the SUV.
  — Brian Lisik/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 6 Feb. 2018
• At the same time, a mob of angry white people snarls, yells obscenities, and hurls glass bottles at them.
  — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2024
• Others said the portly 72-year-old would shout obscenities in his front yard when some chore went awry.
  — Tony Bizjak, Anita Chabria, Dale Kasler, Nashelly Chavez and Diana Lambert, sacbee, 25 Apr. 2018
• Amelia Hoffman slams on the gas and screams obscenities out the window as her hatchback hurtles across the open field.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 17 Dec. 2018
• The problem with billionaires was not just the obscenity of their wealth.
  — Farhad Manjoo New York Times, Star Tribune, 12 May 2021
• The obscenity is absurd, each hook sincere, and every bang well worth the buck.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2017
• The group pushed back and went to court several times to overturn the obscenity rulings.
  — Victor Oquendo, ABC News, 14 July 2023
• And the last ten minutes offer up a twist that had the entire theater erupting in a fury of obscenities.
  — Ineye Komonibo, Marie Claire, 25 Mar. 2019
• Each could face six months to three years in prison if convicted of obscenity.
  — Sara Pagones, NOLA.com, 8 Oct. 2020
• They were both arrested the same day on charges of obscenity.
  — Fernando Ramirez, Houston Chronicle, 13 July 2018
• The football industry is not the set of an adult film in which all obscenities are allowed.
  — SI.com, 2 Sep. 2017
• During the standoff, Banuelos would take a few steps out of the house, then shout obscenities, and go back inside, Miller said.
  — Jennifer Maher, The Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2019
• One modest step would be to enforce laws against obscenity that are already on the books.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 23 Jan. 2020
• The man puts his arm around Sisolak, then insults him and calls him an obscenity inches from his face.
  — NBC News, 1 Mar. 2022
• The video shows a woman pepper-spraying a group of Carson High School students and yelling obscenities.
  — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2024
• Blackwell continued yelling slurs and obscenities at her and appeared to be pulling a knife when gas station patrons approached, the records say.
  — Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024