| 1. | They would defile it and make it shameful. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 2. | And you, paid to defile the People--you liars, mar. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 3. | As, like to pitch, defile nobility. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | And if those who defile the living are as bad as they who defile the dea. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 5. | He had now come to the mouth of the very defile in which he had left them. - from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 6. | All these evil things come from within, and defile the man. - from The King James Bible |
| 7. | Night was coming on rapidly, and it was almost dark before he at last found himself in a defile which was familiar to him. - from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 8. | Many bonafide travellers and ownerless dogs come near him and defile him. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 9. | Two dark jagged peaks loomed above them through the darkness, and the defile which led between them was the Eagle Caon in which the horses were awaiting them. - from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 10. | Dismiss'd whatever insulted my own soul or defiled my body. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 11. | gluttony, or defiled in such a manner as to render it unfit to be eaten. - from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens |
| 12. | Till of a sudden unlook'd for by defiles through the woods, gain'd at night. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 13. | Not Priam's hoary hairs defiled with gore. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 14. | ALL night their course lay through intricate defiles and over irregular and rock-strewn paths. - from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 15. | When false opinion, whose wrong thought defiles thee. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 16. | For five days he toiled footsore and weary through the defiles which he had already traversed on horseback. - from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 17. | The train entered the defiles of the Sutpour Mountains, which separate the Khandeish from Bundelcund, towards evening. - from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne |
| 18. | You have seduced this young girl you have outraged, defiled her. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |