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Example sentences for: taboos
How can you use “taboos” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
I pursued the investigation in a bar, where verbal taboos are often relaxed.
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.
One might be led to think that it is always open (silly) season on the language in the US; but we cannot ignore the seriousness of religious taboos on some aspects of language and writing, as the fatwah issued by the Ayatollah Khomeini on Salman Rushdie because of a book.
Bali’s contact with the Dutch was restricted to providing slaves — mainly Balinese who had broken the rajas’ laws or priests’ taboos — and soldiers for the army of the United Dutch East Indies Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, or VOC).
The insect people did not recognize sexual taboos, which angered the gods and led to their expulsion from each of the first three worlds.