Sentence examples for befoul from inspiring English sources

To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics, is the first task of the statesmanship of the day".

"Punishment concerns [of jury members] invade and befoul the work of guilt decision-making," she wrote.

But for some viewers, it was not the racial jokes but the film's sexual humour that seemed most offensive, with Variety critic Justin Chang writing that Get Hard contains, "some of the ugliest gay-panic humour to befoul a studio release in recent memory".

And in the process, did they honor or befoul politics?

A siren call for price and wage controls would once again befoul the air.

Appearances can be deceiving (one of the film's lessons), though, and murder and drug smuggling befoul the air and complicate the narrative.

On our ravaged planet, says Padel, "we've got such a strong sense of that we have befouled our ecosystem… that it's our fault, and that nemesis will follow".

This was the bee sting, the intimacy he had coveted, legitimately his at last; he felt befouled by things of the body and wanted merely to turn away, but knew he could not.

Anyway, after the CNN debate, in which both Romney and Pawlenty endorsed befouling the Constitution with an amendment to forbid the states from recognizing same-sex marriages, that category may need renaming.

It tries to use the present tense for the immediacy that the present tense develops, but without allowing any verb tense to become befouled in a double orientation of time.

The boy and his twin brother grew up on the streets of Northside, down in the little choke valley, befouled by industry, between the university hill to the southeast and the neighborhood to the north, College Hill, which had no college, despite its name, only modest white houses hinting at the white suburbs to come.