Example sentences for: taboo

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

  • The legitimate and widely recognized singular meaning was illustrated recently in the Globe and Mail, despite the Style Book's taboo.

  • The feeling, one assumes, is that broadcasting them, regardless of context, at times when children are listening, lends rude words a patina of approval that inures them to the corrosive atmosphere of taboo.

  • Other words, like darky , are taboo, leading to a change in the lyrics of Jerome Kern's Ol' Man Ribber (now probably “Old Man River”).

  • (You can see some of these battlefield photos in Slate 's "The Taste for Taboo."

  • He is for the sexual revolution--and who wants to go back to the days when the mention of private acts was so taboo we had no way to talk about domestic violence or flagrant abuses of power?


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