Sentence examples for was defiled from inspiring English sources
verb
To make impure; to make dirty.
In 1999 Stephen's memorial plaque was defiled by paint.
Eventually, the sacred open space was defiled with honorary columns and an equestrian statue of Domitian.
Soon after, Mr. Shata's mosque was defiled with graffiti and smeared with feces.
For instance, although settlers coming to America may have viewed the New World as a virgin land, this book proves it was defiled with remarkable efficiency.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Days of rioting between Christians and Muslims in eastern Pakistan, over allegations that a Koran was defiled, escalated Saturday, leaving six Christians dead, including four women and a child, the authorities said.
And the next land he found, it was bare and and hilly ground,/ Where once the bread-corn grew,/ But the fields were cankered and the water was defiled,/ And the trees were riven through,/ And there was neither paved highway,/ Nor secret path in the wood,/ But had borne its weight of the broken clay/ And darkened 'neath the blood.
"In my view it was defiling the Constitution".
"A race absolutely alien to God," he said, was defiling Christian altars, raping Christian women, tying Christian men to posts and using them for archery practice.
I don't buy Tanenhaus's unsubstantiated interpretation that Aaron has been easy on Barry Bonds because of his own battle with the baseball "purists" who believed he was defiling baseball in his own time.
In fact, defilement is a capital offence in cases where the victim has been infected with HIV/Aids virus or is very young and has been defiled by a relative ─ categorised as aggravated defilement.
None of them is to be defiled.
