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Example sentences for "befouled"

Lexicographically close words:
before; beforehand; beforementioned; beforetime; beforn; befriend; befriended; befriending; befriends; befrilled
  1. Now as soon as the Tailor heard her say this say, he piddled in his bag-breeches and befouled himself and he was in a filthy state with skite and piss.

  2. Hereat I made myself exceeding small and it mortified me to hear how she had found fault with my face and befouled my dress, scorning me till I became between her hands smaller than the very smallest.

  3. For the world is so filthy with vices, that any holy mind is befouled even by thinking about it.

  4. So they gave him a piece of the cloak, and after dinner he went off and befouled it, folded it up, and called for all to come and see the precious relics of the sainted John, which he had lost in the latrina.

  5. The shipyard was a depressing place, full of gaunt cranes, overhead gantries, grimy buildings, and huge corrugated-iron erections with tall chimneys which befouled and blotted out every vestige of the sky with their oily black smoke.

  6. The serene atmosphere of that calm and peaceful summer morn was befouled with Teutonic oaths and much profanity.

  7. He was bold in battle, although adeptness at foul trickery, with which we know many men befouled themselves, should not be praised, unless provoked by unspeakable acts.

  8. He shook like cane in hurricane, his teeth were clenched as by cramp and his clothes were drenched and his body befouled and torn by the rough sides of the well: briefly he was in a sad pickle.

  9. Then he doffed from Kamar al-Zaman his shirt and trousers which he smeared with the horse's blood and he took the Prince's coat which he tore to shreds and befouled with gore; and he cast them down in the fork of the road.

  10. Krishna, having defied the hydra-headed snake whose poison has befouled the River Jumna, is dancing in triumph on its sagging heads.

  11. In this whirlpool lives the giant snake, Kaliya, whose poison has befouled the water, curdling it into a great froth.

  12. Marry, thy jerkin is all befouled with the dust of the road.

  13. And now look thy last upon the daylight, for the good earth hath been befouled long enough by thee, thou vile beast!

  14. And now, all at once was the ring and tramp of mailed feet coming swiftly, and in the doorway stood Roger, his riven mail befouled with battle.

  15. All day have I breathed an air befouled by nameless evil; whithersoever I go needs must I walk 'twixt Murder and Shame!

  16. Then Beltane let fall his reeking sword and staggering out into the light, saw his bright mail befouled with clotted blood, and of a sudden the world went black about him and he fell and lay with his face among the trampled grass.

  17. To him presently cometh Giles yet grasping the blue standard befouled with dust and blood, the which he laid reverently at Beltane's feet.

  18. Everywhere they have beslimed its purity and befouled its beauty, darkening the very sunshine.

  19. We march and march, over fields still ghostly and foot-worn, under a sky where ragged clouds unfurl themselves upon the blackening expanse--which seems to have befouled itself by prolonged contact with so many multitudes of sorry humanity.

  20. While we wander on, dumb and vacant, in the dizzy stupefaction of fatigue, the stream which is running in the bottom of the trench cleanses our befouled feet.

  21. Thanks to Bertrand, who is possessed by a hatred of drunkenness, of the fatal poison that gambles with multitudes, our squad is one of the least befouled by wine and brandy.

  22. It is befouled faces and tattered flesh, it is the corpses that are no longer like corpses even, floating on the ravenous earth.

  23. They do not meet you with rum-befouled breaths as in most cities, but with a welcoming face and a clear eye.

  24. No young Sienese eyes rest upon anything youthful; they open into a world battered and befouled with long use.

  25. Presently, my foot stumbled upon something; so I put my hand to it, and it became befouled with blood.

  26. I wiped my hand upon my bag-trousers, unknowing what had befouled it, and put it out a second time, when it fell upon a corpse whose head came up in my hand.

  27. Asphyxiating vapours and the bitter odour of ashes and of rotting vegetation loaded the air every night, and befouled the drinking water, the food, and even the rags of the soldiers.

  28. It was with profound melancholy that he gazed at his uncut nails, and the purple of his travelling chlamys, befouled by dust and muddy roads.

  29. Rioters profaned the wood, broke down branches of ancient laurels, befouled the springs, and trampled on the sleeping flowers.

  30. The soil in which those vicissitudes of drought and saturation are potent for evil must be one that is befouled with animal organic matters, more especially with excremental matters.

  31. The disease in its successive visitations so obviously sought out the spots of ground most befouled with excremental and other filth as to bring home to everyone the dangers of the casual disposal of town refuse.

  32. The troops had no choice but to use the water from the befouled ponds.

  33. There is no vileness; no one who is clean remains befouled because of the things that are gone.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "befouled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.