Sentence Examples:
As they rode on, the desolate wildness of the defile increased.
Passing at length through a defile the encampment came to view.
Already the assailants in the defile of the road were fleeing.
They were in a rocky defile, like a little gully descending.
For the groom to defile an espoused woman is a foul reproach.
I won't have my churchyard defiled by that blackguard's corpse.
The Indian stopped and looked back, pointing down the defile.
I've been crushed, trampled and defiled by a drove of hogs.
All defiling, smoke-begriming factories were to be banished to an innocuous distance.
Here, amidst these rugged defiles, the mountaineers set their traps.
Here a narrow glen opened into a defile with high, steep sides.
We climbed mountains, threaded defiles, waded through stream and swamp.
Alexander demolished it, with the intention of opening the defiles.
They continue to defile up to the embankment slope of the railway.
How it had cramped and crippled and defiled his life!
Or have you defiled those holy temples with drunkenness and lust?
This is a rocky defile with frowning crags and perpendicular walls.
Below them the searchlight showed a deep defile between rocky hills.
Would not Parmenides have been abhorred to hear the "nous" so defiled.
"That yellow paper defiles the table," hissed the fellow viciously.
In its season everything must defile before the mirror of changeless time.
The afterglow disappeared, and the darkness was deep in the defile.
I felt as though my breath had withered and defiled it.
He also loathed the betting element that defiled the Soccer game.
We behold it dishonored, mastered, defiled and rendered useless by mankind.
Adam was the heave offering of the world, and Eve defiled it.
Williams' voice rose in impotent rage, filling the defile with profane echoes.
He had not only been beaten; he had been dishonored and defiled.
After this the defile opens up to close again between serpentine cliffs.
I defiled my soul with the blood of innocence, virtue and nobleness.
Long sallied forth to meet them, posting himself at a rocky defile.
Let us watch the carnival procession of the masks defile before us.
It was a mean expanse, blackened by soot and defiled by refuse.
Wherefore there were no troops holding the defile at the critical moment.
All the motives that can darken or defile were ascribed to him.
Its ministry had been jobbed, its character defiled, by unscrupulous politicians.
An insufferable stench filled the land, concentrating round every defiled homestead.
In a place of public execution and interment, they must have been defiled.
The trenches and passageways must not under any circumstances be defiled.
The last rocky defile gained, a deep impenetrable gloom pervaded the scene.
He has discovered the whole habitable globe and proceeded to defile it.
I am not descending to so defiling a depth as to talk about plagiarism.
That the best Works even of the Saints are defiled and polluted.
He clothes in white garments those who have not defiled their robes.
Shells were dropping into the defile as fast as the gunners could load.
Why conjure up that memory which you have so cruelly poisoned and defiled?
The prince, the young king's vassal, has defiled his master's bride!
Then all articles used or defiled by the sufferer were to be burned.
In the defile, sheltered by its high rocky banks, bonfires were roaring.
She is a pariah and her presence is defiling to one of my caste.
The defile was duly forced, but its passage was one long skirmish.
He had defiled her by bringing her into contact with those libertines.
It was something worse than the most breakneck defile among the Cordilleras.
Instead of cleansing them, as they vainly dreamed, they had defiled it.
And some slave somewhere purchased will defile my bed, before wooed by princes.
And once more, we may defile the temple of the body by Drunkenness.
He was facing a narrow defile that wound up among the overhanging crags.
As they entered the mouth of the gloomy defile the pace was slackened.
The train was passing through a defile and laboriously puffing up a grade.
Again we beseech that no believing man defile his faith with this error.
This is, because falsity in spiritual things either takes away religion or defiles it.
"Do not slander the dead; defile not his memory with superfluous blood!"
I cannot defile the mass by celebrating it in the presence of a heretic.'
May my body be likened to the temple of the Holy Ghost defiled?
Our modern highwaymen do not haunt lonesome defiles and cry 'Stand and Deliver.'
You cannot even touch this pitch of moral defilement without being yourself defiled.
Mammon, covetousness, oppression, fraud, were rising like strange fire from these defiled altars!
You found her degraded, defiled, dragged through the mire of wickedness and vice.
Most of the charm is gone from flowers thus defiled by dingy fingers.
We defiled through the town: roadways echoing, handkerchiefs waving, some laughter, some tears.
It was probably from this point that Marius watched the hordes defile past.
No man surely can be wise who will suffer himself to be defiled therewith.
Not a speck of mud defiled its body; soot and oil were nowhere obtrusive.
Sinner that I am, I am defiled; I must purify myself and do penance.
The insurgents had fortified the heights, their cannon completely controlling the defile.
The Harwell band marched through the archway and defiled on to the platform.
She had been through passion and wrong, through things that seared and defiled.
Mountain defiles were swarming with white invaders, making ready, but not yet attacking.
The count sent out scouts to clamber every height and explore every defile.
Your impure eyes and heart defile purity itself, and see spots even in the sun.
Still white and foaming, it rushed on impetuously seaward through the somber defile.
This might defile the sanctuary or tempt her to "usurp authority over the man."
They will defile the atmosphere of social life with filthy talk and ribald jest.
Must you, then, let what is high and noble be so misunderstood and defiled?
We went, down a small tributary glen, towards the head of the great defile.
Their flank is protected by the cliffs, but there is a defile left unguarded!
The story is that the Romans, entangled in a defile, were suffering from thirst.
There are trees in the glens and the entrance of the defiles is woody.
Or, let the serpents defile the pure food with their food-defiling urine and dung.'
And it was down this defile that the cutthroats rode on their plundering expeditions.
Murder trials would be expensive and almost interminable, defiled with perjury and sentiment.
The best and noblest things in human life are liable to be defiled and perverted.
Their superior numbers gave them no advantage, on account of the narrowness of the defile.
Then the sun went off the defile, and a coolness truly refreshing succeeded.
Here the river runs in a narrow precipitous defile along which no path is practicable.
It has been defiled by the hand of a sweeper and I cannot eat it.
Creatures not of this world guarded narrow defiles, yet let them pass unharmed.
On the whole, the weight of the commentators certainly inclines to the rendering "defile."
Balzac defied all rules, walked over the grammar, defiled the well of classic French.
Will not profane men, whose hands are defiled, maintain the uprightness of their hearts?