How to Use taboo in a Sentence

taboo

1 of 2 adjective

• Sex is a taboo subject for many people.
• In this company, dating a coworker is considered taboo.
• Since the dawn of cell phones, it’s been taboo to use them at the movies.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 12 Oct. 2023
• One of the most taboo things in the whole movie is about motherhood.
  — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 18 June 2022
• Over the last couple of years, the taboo topic of loss has been brought to the forefront.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2022
• Also on the long list of taboo objects for the Dalam: soap, shoes, pants and nails.
  — New York Times, 11 July 2022
• The mom, who is 40, can’t wrap her head around how cannabis became so taboo in the first place.
  — Ellen McCarthy, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Oct. 2022
• The subject of mental health has long been taboo in China.
  — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 11 July 2023
• At the time, Cher also wanted to wear Tabu by Dana, which was known for being… well, taboo.
  — Nicola Dall'asen, Allure, 22 Oct. 2022
• For Black Jews and Black Muslims, their sacred texts inform them that pork is a taboo food.
  — Adrian Miller, Bon Appétit, 23 Aug. 2022
• What interests you about the idea of these things that used to be taboo but now are entering the mainstream?
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Dec. 2023
• But while pale pink tends to be tied to all the innocence of girlhood, hot pink is, well, a lot hotter and more taboo.
  — Katy Kelleher, refinery29.com, 14 July 2022
• Players covered in pads up to their ears was pretty taboo.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 12 Jan. 2024
• There were plenty of stars in the building as the NFL brought its biggest game to this gambling mecca — once a taboo idea.
  — Rob Maaddi, Twin Cities, 12 Feb. 2024
• The idea was shelved and, according to Mankins, remains a taboo subject for many at the agency.
  — Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 19 Oct. 2022
• Creating new work by a late artist is usually taboo in the art world.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 14 May 2022
• The post also paid tribute to the taboo topics explored in the high school setting throughout the first three seasons.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 5 July 2023
• In many cases, people of color are afraid to speak up in the workplace and race is often seen as a taboo topic.
  — Amiah Taylor, Fortune, 3 May 2022
• Her platform has since evolved into a forum to discuss even the most taboo topics.
  — Tara Aquino, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2022
• Talking about money has long been taboo, and those with higher salaries don’t feel the need to share numbers that the underpaid do.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2022
• The 39-year-old has been raising awareness for topics that have long been taboo in America.
  — Anna Halkidis, Parents, 25 Jan. 2024
• And yet talking about the infirmities that come with age is largely taboo.
  — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2023
• While the subject of race remains taboo, Ms. Essaifi believes the events of the past week were a step toward speaking more openly about it.
  — Cara Anna, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2023
• Stopping procedural votes was once a rare and taboo move.
  — Ken Tran, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2024
• It's either been too awkward or taboo to discuss with parents or something to tease and joke about in the locker room with pals and friends.
  — Sarah Fielding, Men's Health, 6 Dec. 2022
• As a result of — or, maybe, as a precursor to — these changes in attitude, discussing menopause is no longer taboo.
  — Amy Larocca, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2022
• So, taboo topics, or even just questions that aren’t as frequently asked.
  — Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 13 Mar. 2023
• But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed on to her like a birthright.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
• What workers need to know about the overturn of Roe: Workplace political talk can be taboo.
  — Jena McGregor, Forbes, 6 July 2022
• Coupled with Japan’s own history of colonization, Adler said, speaking about the grief of Japanese people has almost felt taboo.
  — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 11 Mar. 2024

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taboo

2 of 2 noun

• Marrying a close relative is a taboo in many cultures.
• But the writing of the taboo can be a metaphor for other things.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 16 May 2022
• And, that taboo still exists, that red line is still very bright.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2023
• That’s obviously dealt with in the film; the whole scary clown thing, which is like a taboo.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 July 2023
• And for now, there are good reasons why these taboos still exist.
  — WIRED, 25 Sep. 2023
• The use of nuclear weapons by Russia would break a taboo against their use in war that has held since 1945.
  — Stephen Fidler, WSJ, 19 May 2022
• Maybe not your usual taboo, tabloid-fare acting, if that makes sense.
  — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 18 Apr. 2022
• Some of the media’s silence about these tragedies has less to do with taboo and more with prevention.
  — Justin Raystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2022
• By World War II it was considered taboo to even to let a bra strap slide down a shoulder.
  — Christina Binkley, Town & Country, 23 Aug. 2022
• What style taboo will this rogue Jennifer Lawrence embrace next?
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 23 Aug. 2023
• However, the film tries to avoid moral judgments, and even embraces taboos.
  — Callum McLennan, Variety, 3 Aug. 2023
• But no one was daring enough to pursue it as a career because at the time it was looked at as taboo.
  — Thania Garcia, Variety, 31 Oct. 2023
• France struggles to confront one of its biggest taboos: race.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
• The character of Elle is obsessed with taboo and breaking taboos.
  — Peter Strickland Wants, Vulture, 26 June 2022
• One longstanding taboo is being tossed aside in the quest for soldiers.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2022
• Even discussing the events chronicled here is still a huge taboo in the underworld.
  — Jake Adelstein, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2023
• What was once an old style taboo is, clearly, now a fresh color pairing.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 9 Oct. 2023
• The movie probes the taboo of a mother whose needs don’t align with those of her children and, facing that conflict, chooses herself.
  — Jordan Kisner, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2022
• But scientists can’t say the same for female pleasure, and the taboo around clitorises has stuck.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2022
• No question is more taboo to 49ers officials than this one.
  — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
• While some may find the topics of death and funerals macabre or taboo, Keeney strongly disagrees.
  — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 13 May 2022
• Their smaller size, some experts fear, could break down the nuclear taboo.
  — Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2022
• What is not clear is how the ear might universally assign sounds as markers of taboo and nontaboo words.
  — Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 6 Dec. 2022
• For many of us, hugging was de rigueur before the pandemic made touching taboo.
  — Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2022
• The real winner of the Israeli election may not be Benjamin Netanyahu, but the country’s once taboo far right.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2022
• Dear Miss Manners: Why is it considered taboo to ask a woman her age?
  — Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2022
• Why the sudden change, since this question was treated as taboo in 2020, and where would Democrats turn if Biden declined to run for re-election?
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 19 June 2022
• Friðriksdóttir was asked whether there had been a taboo about menstrual blood.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
• Chega showed once again that taboos that had kept hard-right parties out of power, foremost the long shadow of a right-wing dictatorship from last century, were falling.
  — Emma Bubola, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
• As CEOs remotely perform cuts, employees are posting about the carnage and pushing past taboo to expose the emotional cost of these moves.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 29 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024