Example sentences for: taboo

How can you use “taboo” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Diana pictorial taboo and its underlying moralism turned out to be remarkably evanescent, and a secondary morality tale has arisen to explain why: It's the Internet's fault.

  • In December she met "hunky Hollywood hotshot" Chris Henchy, a comedy writer and producer who wrote a comic speech for her to deliver in Washington, reports the Enquirer . Soon afterward, the two were violating taboo by taking Tae Bo classes together.

  • .. not necessarily obscence or taboo”--but that is not the meaning most people would apply in the context of a book on cursing.

  • Tampons, for instance, can be delicately referred to with English words such as `tea-bag' tiibagu , `cracker' kuraka , `wireless microphone' wairesumaiku, or `vanilla (ice-cream cone)' banira . Another taboo subject, condoms, can be touched on with playful metaphors such as: `globe' gurôbu, `raincoat' reinkôto, or `cover for Mr. John' jon-kun kaba .

  • In this comprehensive study, Timothy Jay, who teachers at North Adams State College, in Massachusetts, divides his subject into several subcategories: Cursing, Profanity, Blasphemy, Taboo, Obscenity, Vulgarity, Slang, Epithets, and Scatology.


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