10 example sentences using defile.
Defile used in a sentence
Defile in a sentence as a noun
These are what defile a man, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile him.
To mar the purity or luster of; defile: to sully a reputation.
Yeah, we're going to plague a bunch of inanimate objects, and defile the sanctity of the asteroid belt.
I don't see Bletchley as some holy ground where these kinds of things defile it. Perhaps people need to have more realistic ideas of what a tourist destination means.
All the Christians who could get away fled from the city, and the Mohammedans would not defile their hands by burying the 'infidel dogs.
Defile in a sentence as a verb
It is paradoxical that in the context of modern life we have begun to worship the servant and defile the divine.
"We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things and yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy for us." -- Mark Twain
Il just leave this from Kipling"A scrimmage in a Border Station- A canter down some dark defile Two thousand pounds of education Drops to a ten-rupee jezail.
The amount of crapware was shocking and I'm not even talking about the horrible custom OSDs that some manufactures defile computers with.
Note that Saruman turns Isengard evil with "The fires of industry"; orcs cut down the trees and defile large areas of the countryside, while the Nine Rings corrupt men in the name of greed and power.
Defile definitions
a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)
See also: gorge
place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; "sully someone's reputation"
make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically; "The silver was tarnished by the long exposure to the air"; "Her reputation was sullied after the affair with a married man"