How to Use taint in a Sentence

taint

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• The hybrids might taint the genes of nearby wolf packs.
  — Boyce Upholt, Outside Online, 29 June 2021
• Philadelphia’s decision to hold 16 players out of the game will taint the win in the eyes of some.
  — Dallas News, 9 Jan. 2022
• The 2022 deaths of the two men were ruled homicides after they were given drugs tainted with fentanyl.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 30 Mar. 2023
• Now their leader was tainted, and so were their résumés.
  — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
• Many are still haunted by images of corpses strewn on the floor, puddles of blood, and police boots tainted red.
  — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2023
• But the proud waving of flags through the streets has been tainted by concerns about safety and traffic delays.
  — Laura Rodríguez Presa, Chicago Tribune, 16 Sep. 2023
• So when that gets kind of tainted or messed up, there's different ways people process it.
  — Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel, 14 Apr. 2023
• Coaches who aren’t tainted by the toxic touch of Jeff Lebby’s father-in-law.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 13 Sep. 2023
• At the same time, the department has faced several scandals which have tainted his time as top cop.
  — Maria L. La Ganga, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2024
• If that process is seen to be tainted, if the playing field does not appear to be level, then that consent is removed.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 28 May 2023
• Teaching that math is ‘racist’ will taint the field for everyone, including those who need it most.
  — Kenin M. Spivak, National Review, 16 Sep. 2021
• Will this scandal taint his effort to fight corruption?
  — New York Times, 10 June 2022
• In recent years, the provenance of works connected to him, many of which were shrouded in secrecy, has been tainted.
  — Natasha Frost, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
• York also notes that CNN could experience some blowback from the shutdown, which could taint the brand.
  — Toni Fitzgerald, Forbes, 1 May 2022
• If that data is tainted with bias, the algorithm, too, will inevitably be biased.
  — Igor Khalatian, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• The defense argued that the size of the settlement could taint the opinions of the jury, thereby increasing odds that Chauvin could be found guilty.
  — Essence, 20 Mar. 2021
• In his view, answering yes would taint all his decisions in terms of politics.
  — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 8 May 2021
• There is no doubt in my mind that counterfeit products can taint the value and overall image of fashion brands.
  — Joseph Deacetis, Forbes, 5 June 2021
• Later Sunday, however, Moraes sought to calm concerns of a broader effort that could taint the vote.
  — Gabriela Sá Pessoa, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2022
• Some of those snobs will not taint their palates with products from Bolgheri, claiming that Italian wine made with French grapes lacks character and provenance.
  — Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 12 Dec. 2021
• Even if Trump is defeated at the ballot box, the stain of complicity will forever taint the Supreme Court and our country.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2024
• But the former President and his supporters repeat the lie in a manner that looks certain to taint future elections as well.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 2 Sep. 2021
• The queen’s 1892 trip to Hyères was tainted by her mourning for her eldest grandchild and heir presumptive, Prince Albert Victor.
  — Jonathan Miles, Town & Country, 5 Sep. 2023
• The motion argues that such statements could taint the possible jury pool.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 26 Oct. 2021
• Dozens of other Navy personnel who were not prosecuted were tainted by their contacts with him and saw the end of their careers.
  — Luis Martinez, ABC News, 20 Dec. 2023
• Nor was it tainted for his wife's trial, which ended in guilty verdicts on all four counts, the prosecution maintains.
  — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 16 Feb. 2024
• While some locals shrug it off, others worry that the media attention could taint the public image of Boyle Heights.
  — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2022
• Croft fears releasing the exhibits now will taint the jury selection process.
  — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 2 June 2021
• For years, Pien grappled with whether or not to get an official diagnosis out of fears that the record would tarnish and taint her ability to find work in the industry.
  — Diego Ramos Bechara, Variety, 7 Mar. 2024
• Even more insidious is the trend to deliberately taint supplies such as counterfeit pills, crudely pressed and sold online or via SnapChat.
  — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 17 Mar. 2024

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taint

2 of 2 noun

• Sure enough, the tests showed small levels of smoke-taint compounds.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• Grapes that are damaged by smoke taint might not make a very good wine.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 24 Sep. 2020
• The judge can also use a special master to do what the taint team would do.
  — Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2018
• The results indicated a low risk of smoke taint for the whites and rosés.
  — NBC News, 24 Sep. 2020
• The fact that the 2021 harvest was not threatened by fires or smoke taint was also a boon.
  — Liz Thach, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2022
• For some, expunging the taint of the Saudis from the U.S. alliance system may be worth the price.
  — Mike Watson, National Review, 30 July 2019
• Harder to solve are the smoke taint and water shortages.
  — New York Times, 18 July 2021
• All that mattered was to be free of what, to him, was the Germanic taint of ‘Rosenberg’.
  — Jonathan Freedland, Time, 29 Dec. 2022
• His left hand reaches around, grabs my ass cheek, and one of his fingers touches me in the taint.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 7 Feb. 2023
• But the thing people have to realize about smoke taint is that all the wine in vats and barrels is fine.
  — Ray Isle, PEOPLE.com, 17 Oct. 2017
• At one point, 51 tons of grapes had to be canceled because of smoke taint from West Coast fires, Mike said.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 20 Dec. 2021
• Those were the controls; the smoke-taint tests had come back negative, Kurtzman said.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 3 Dec. 2020
• Even so, his name was cleared from the taint of disloyalty.
  — Alfred W. McCoy, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2020
• There’s still the taint of guitar strings and navel gazing in the air all around Northeast L.A., but that’s not the natural scent of the place.
  — Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2021
• Cork Taint When a wine is described as corked, the culprit is something known as cork taint.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 21 Feb. 2023
• Perhaps those bodies most charged with the hands-on care of these bodies also bear the taint.
  — Longreads, 14 Apr. 2020
• In their filing on Sunday night, Trump’s lawyers said a taint team won’t be fair to the president.
  — Bloomberg.com, 16 Apr. 2018
• Lou’s Gold Medal and the taint of his origins combined to nearly exclude him from the job market.
  — Marty Judge Community Voices Contributor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2021
• Hundreds of wineries needed smoke-taint tests at the same time, and only a handful of labs could do it.
  — Dave Eggers, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2020
• But the court's more conservative judges pressed Jadwat to say how long the taint of the campaign statements would last.
  — Pete Williams, NBC News, 8 May 2017
• Epstein is gone, but his taint lives on and there may well be more resignations to come.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 7 Sep. 2019
• This was the case in 2020, when the majority of grapes weren’t even harvested due to widespread smoke taint.
  — Jess Lander, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Feb. 2022
• Once the flames are extinguished, the major issue for the wine industry will be smoke taint.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 27 Aug. 2020
• Start by cleansing the team roster of his enduring taint.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2022
• Buying land here is also a hedge against the destruction that wildfire and smoke taint can bring.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Mar. 2022
• In addition to the heat spikes, the 2020 growing season had brought drought pressure, minuscule yields and the threat of smoke taint.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 1 Oct. 2020
• It's believed the rite cleanses a soldier of war's taint and heads off postwar ailments.
  — Betty Reid, azcentral, 29 Aug. 2019
• What White men choose to disregard comes to bear the taint of effluvium.
  — Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2021
• Conversely, of course, to have the taint of Jewish blood was to be fair game for annihilation.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 20 July 2023
• Just last week, a federal study estimated that PFAS now taints nearly half of the nation’s tap water.
  — Amudalat Ajasa, Washington Post, 14 July 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024