How to Use sacrilegious in a Sentence

sacrilegious

adjective

• Some Muslims found the book sacrilegious and it is banned in the country.
  — Ray Sanchez, Adam Thomas and Kristina Sgueglia, CNN, 12 Aug. 2022
• Doing enough—and just enough—for the duration of a few kō doesn’t seem sacrilegious.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 26 July 2021
• But disliking a three-way or cheese coney is sacrilegious in these parts.
  — David Wysong, The Enquirer, 13 Oct. 2022
• This, the show’s most sacrilegious item, was seen as a kind of anti-Madonna which provoked horror when the Gallery acquired it in 1860.
  — The Economist, 7 Oct. 2020
• And that’s playing with the idea of the divine, and the sacrilegious, as an act of tenderness and an act of intimacy, as sacrament.
  — Charlie H. Stern, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2023
• Doughnuts, dumplings, gourmet fish sticks, where to find the perfect croissant plus a sacrilegious bagel and pre-hippie granola bars.
  — Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2022
• The Greek myth of Lycaon — a sacrilegious king transformed into a wolf as punishment for attempting to trick the god Zeus — informed the play.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2022
• Sports fans will find many of the pieces familiar and possibly sacrilegious, depending on one’s point of view.
  — New York Times, 21 Oct. 2020
• His was an age in which the prospect of Earth bereft of human occupancy was too abominable, too sacrilegious, to contemplate.
  — Rebecca Giggs, The New York Review of Books, 30 Nov. 2023
• After the end of this month, one of the most controversial and sacrilegious Netflix originals of all time is finally set to leave the streamer.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 6 Aug. 2021
• Hardcore Dylan fans will love hearing pristine live recordings from the tour, along with all the studio outtakes, though some are likely to find the idea of a new Time Out of Mind mix to be somewhat sacrilegious.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2023
• Battle Golf is the most sacrilegious of modes: a fever dream in a roaring stadium, with holes in all directions and a wild maze of complex obstacles, like Whomps and Chain Chomps, to batter you.
  — Will Bedingfield, Wired, 29 June 2021
• One woman explained how, since so many of her relatives had been killed in the Holocaust, she’d been raised to believe that any criticism of Israel was sacrilegious.
  — Amanda Ripley, Time, 17 Apr. 2021
• Rome’s blessing is also its curse—a food tradition so rich that messing with its scriptures can seem sacrilegious.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 July 2022
• The idea that someone would made such a claim sitting next to arguably the greatest coach of all time, who just finished with the No. 1 signing class in the country and has won seven national championship, seemed sacrilegious to some.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 11 Jan. 2023
• To some, modifying the special Demon may be sacrilegious, but much more egregious acts have been committed in the quest for horsepower and bragging rights.
  — Maxwell B. Mortimer, Car and Driver, 12 June 2020
• Oakes also accuses me of calling Lincoln a dictator, as though this were a sacrilegious insult rather than the subject of pages of close analysis.
  — James Oakes, The New York Review of Books, 12 May 2022
• The car’s hot rod–style roof chop may seem sacrilegious to some, but the low-slung Lancia is based on an actual Carrera Panamericana racer that was also lowered in period.
  — Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 27 Jan. 2024
• By the 1590s, Elizabeth has grown into an ageless, almost sacrilegious icon, clutching a rainbow in her outstretched hand.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2022
• Those questions nagged at the cast and filmmakers, too, who regularly engaged in debates about God, the universe — even lines of dialogue that felt a little too sacrilegious.
  — Vulture, 29 June 2022
• Though nearly sacrilegious to some, cheese has become a more popular Italian beef option.
  — Nick Kindelsperger, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2023
• On that site, some praised him for his artistic vision as well as his unbound expression of queerness; others labeled the video Satanic or sacrilegious, and pledged to boycott his music.
  — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 29 Mar. 2021
• For most of this year, the 22-year-old Atlantan has made the internet into a big, gay carnival with steamy-and-sacrilegious music videos, bruising Twitter battles, a fake talk show, and an even faker pregnancy.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2021
• Some sacrilegious image or comment or artwork made in Copenhagen or London is discovered and then rebroadcast in Cairo or Tehran.
  — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 23 Aug. 2022
• Drinking a Bloody Mary at night just feels wrong and confusing, sacrilegious even, which is hilarious because everything else goes.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 15 Apr. 2021
• For an outdoorsy explorer, this may sound sacrilegious.
  — Mike Bezemek, Outside Online, 13 Apr. 2023
• The locals are extremely religious but also sweet-toothed, and don't see anything sacrilegious in the ostie piene, which were said to have originated inside the village convent of Santissima Trinità at least 500 years ago.
  — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 22 Oct. 2022
• Google Nest founder Matt Rogers didn’t shy away from the commitment, venturing fully and completely into a realm many gearheads consider sacrilegious, all with the goal of producing zero tailpipe emissions.
  — Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 6 Mar. 2024
• Muslim politicians, religious scholars and everyday people have condemned such depictions as a form of hate speech and view them as sacrilegious and insulting to Islam.
  — Niniek Karmini, Star Tribune, 31 Oct. 2020
• Depictions of the prophet Mohammed are considered sacrilegious to many Muslims — though there is not universal consensus on the issue within the faith community.
  — Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Aug 2024