Example sentences for: taboo

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

  • Only a few brave scientists violated the taboo and speculated on life beyond Earth.

  • As for the lack of scientific speculation about forms of alien life, why is it the result of a "taboo"?

  • I had to put the book to some sort of test, so I looked up I'm all right, Jack , which is not in the fairly comprehensive Index; instead, I found it under Jack: I'm all right J., and it would be unfair to complain about that; to learn that it was said to come from a novel by Sir David Bone is not much of a revelation, nor is it particularly exciting to learn that Eric Partridge thinks it arose earlier as a minced form of some taboo Victorianism (if such things actually existed).

  • In a spot for the Nissan Altima that's on the air now, Hirshberg boasts, "Technically speaking, we gave the car some cojones ." The word "cojones " is partially bleeped out to emphasize that Hirshberg is bravely violating a taboo.

  • The orthography used here for the Serbian slang-words is not a standardized transliteration of today's Serbian Cyrillics, and not an official Latin spelling--which would be Croatian, and therefore taboo.


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