Sentence examples similar to defile the environment from inspiring English sources

Environmentalists are castigating the makers of bottled water — and the people who buy it — for defiling the environment with plastic.

Which would defile the hallow'd ornaments.

"The loads will defile the Blackfoot," Ms. Smith said.

My intention was not to attack or defile the Cenotaph.

Socialists should read it, democratic Socialists; the rest have no right to defile the name.

The priest who handled the body and blood of Christ should therefore be uncontaminated lest he defile the sacred corpus.

Mr. Winter was again threatening to defile the Chairman of the Board.

Even if it doesn't end up a national obsession, the US Skins doesn't defile the legacy of the original.

In a particularly nasty 1921 letter to Edmund Wilson, he wrote, "The negroid streak creeps northward to defile the Nordic race.

Some Native Hawaiian groups had petitioned against the project, arguing that it would defile the mountain's sacred summit.

He said: "We don't want anything tomorrow to happen that might defile the name of Michael Brown".