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Example sentences for: taboos

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Laws against interracial marriage--and the taboos against black-white sex that they codify--have been the central weapon in the oppression of African-Americans since the dawn of slavery.
For all its nonsensical trappings, the mummy narrative is serious business, because when other peoples' passionately held taboos are casually flouted it is serious business.
James Ferman, Secretary of the BBFC, points out that it is only in the English-speaking world that such strong taboos have been built up around dictionary words and that this country shares with South Africa alone its extreme anxiety about “bad” language.
Language taboos seem to be persistent in American English--more so than in British English, where, although one cannot say that anything goes, one encounters more dirty language on television (in particular), especially after the so-called “watershed” hour of nine o'clock (which some are trying to put off till ten o'clock).
I pursued the investigation in a bar, where verbal taboos are often relaxed.