They took up their quarters at Boyle, and occupied themselves in wantonly desecrating the abbey.
We read in one place of his reckless exploits in burning churches and desecrating shrines, and in others of his liberal endowments of the same.
Keep your flag flying, and do not let any one persuade you that you aredesecrating it by putting on stars for the States where government is based on the consent of the governed, and leaving them off for those which are not.
She continued: "A newspaper of this city has criticized the suffrage banner with its four stars and has accused us of desecrating our country's flag.
This practice found a climax in desecrating the Holy Sacrament.
In desecrating the churches and stamping on the crucifixes the Jacobins had in fact followed the precise formula of black magic: "For the purpose of infernal evocation .
Furthermore, no Jew might be accused of using Christian blood in the Passover ceremonies, or of desecrating hosts, "Jews being innocent of such offenses, which are repudiated by their religion.
The work was performed by Europeans, and all possible delicacy was observed in not desecrating the shrine further than was absolutely necessary.
Then he conceived the idea of purchasing exemption from ravage by bribing the commanders, in the hope that by so doing they would refrain from desecrating the tombs he held in such regard.
By whose desecrating hand it was torn from the records, or how it found its way to its present resting-place.
But they carried him off to prison and kept him shut up there until he died and paid the penalty for his crime of desecrating the Abbey.
For forty-two months after the nation has been newly set up the city will be so trodden under the desecrating feet of the nations.
In Daniel's prophecy there are four events spoken of as occurring at this time, and each is measured from the time when the sacrifices are stopped and the chiefdesecrating act in the temple begins.
The limning of years could not be effaced by the desecrating power of mortified vanity.
It is because you are desecrating the Sabbath, and breaking the commandments of God.
As my friends shuffle and deal, I look out of window at the warm gray towers of the cathedral, beautiful still spite of the desecrating hand of the "Wolf of Badenoch.
King Charles shook himself, metaphorically, and registered a vow that he would drive out every “desecrating English dog.
The British officers felt no compunctions in thus desecrating a Presbyterian chapel.
This old mansion, projecting into and marring the regularity of the street, is an eyesore to the villagers, and when the present owner shall depart, no doubt this relic will be removed by the desecratinghand of improvement.
Within the area of the northeast redoubt, at the time of my visit, potatoes in desecrating luxuriance were flourishing, except upon a very small spot occupied as a burial-place for a few of the Vanderburgh family.
We cannot cast out these or any other desecrating thoughts and desires by ourselves, except to a very small degree.
Reaching the temple on a feast day, he was confronted by riotous music and unseemly merriment, desecrating the temple itself.
It was into this temple that Coifi flung hisdesecrating spear, and in this stream that Edwin the king received Christian baptism.
Yet all remained silent; no thunders rent the skies; the desecrating priest sat his horse unharmed.
What desecrating hand will ever banish that eloquent unfinished surprise from that place?
The Indian wars were very desecrating to the country.
I smell a most outrageous smell of Welsh rarebit desecrating the night air.
Such odors, such crystal beauty untouched by the desecrating hand of man.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "desecrating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
