Example sentences for: taboo

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

  • The often important factor of taboo seems not to operate here too conspicuously, although the superstition of the evil eye is often a potent consideration.

  • My own choice for a label is Taboo , which is incisively denotative.

  • They meet people who share their preoccupations, quirks, sense of humor, and sexual fantasies, people who like to argue about politics and religion (still taboo subjects in much of real-life America), who are experts in fascinating subjects, and who like to explain them.

  • The terms used here are not immediately transparent: if by communicative intention is meant `denotative purpose, the information the speaker wishes to convey,' unless one views communication in the broadest way, it would seem to me that the definition confuses denotation with connotation; that is to say, whether an expression is euphemistic, neutral, or taboo is a matter of connotation, and the fact that a speaker avoids shit for defecate, move one's bowels , etc., is purely a connotative matter: denotatively (communicatively?)

  • In a book dealing with a subject of this sort one must be extremely careful to cleave to rigid definitions of the key terms ( euphemism, dysphemism, taboo , etc.) and not deviate from them.


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