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How to use taint in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun, verb

Taint means a contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food. Example: “Meat soon taints in warm weather.”

Examples of taint by meaning

verbTo be affected with incipient putrefaction.

  • Meat soon taints in warm weather.

More sentences with taint

  • Cork taint is one of the most recognizable wine faults.From the entry fault
  • I seem to remember that it included change not only from all taint of Bushery but also from Clinonism.2009 January, “The mystification of change (by James Bowman)”, in The New Criterion, page 59, column 2. From the entry Bushite
  • The two senators have been tripping over each other to distance themselves from the taint of Beltway insiderdom.2008 June 1, Jill Abramson, “A Nod to the Insiders”, in New York Times. From the entry insiderdom
  • Riding down the main thoroughfare, the growl of his stomach taints the soothing jazz playing on the radio.2004, Rique Johnson, chapter 2, in Whispers from a Troubled Heart, Largo, Md.: Strebor Books, →ISBN, page 21. From the entry growl
  • Apparently it helped take away the taint of munjon.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 96. From the entry whitefeller
  • Taint no odds to corpseys whether 'tis wet or dry.1910, Peter Hampson Ditchfield, The Parson's Pleasance, page 182. From the entry corpsey
  • Everwhat Gawd does is fair even ef 'taint fair.1906, May Beal, chapter 6, in The Rebel at Large. From the entry everwhat
  • The Puritanical elements of English society had become appalled at those who they claimed were trying to taint the fundamentals of Christianity.2014 June, Kevin L. Dooley, “De Tocqueville’s Allegorical Journey: Equality, Individualism, and the Spread of American Values”, in Journal…. From the entry puritanical
  • Is it the fall of age merely, a geriatrical complaint, this drift to disengage, this cool unrage? or rather some dark philosophic taint?1985, Robert Francis, Collected Poems 1936-1976 - Page 195. From the entry unrage

Meaning of taint

  1. noun A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food.
  2. noun A tinge, trace or touch.
  3. noun A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish.

Full definition of taint

Questions about taint in a sentence

How do you use taint in a sentence?
Taint is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Meat soon taints in warm weather.”
What is a short sentence with taint?
“Meat soon taints in warm weather.”
What does taint mean?
Taint means a contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: taint (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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