How to Use taint in a Sentence

taint

1 of 2 verb

• And yet, for years, the air has been tainted.
  — Walker Armstrong, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026
• Is there something tainted or cursed about this place?
  — Kennedy French, Variety, 4 Mar. 2026
• But there’s a taste of ash tainting the popcorn thrills.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2025
• From the very start, hope around the target was tainted by doubt.
  — Sophie Yeo, The Dial, 4 Nov. 2025
• So when that gets kind of tainted or messed up, there's different ways people process it.
  — Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel, 14 Apr. 2023
• And there's also issues of tainting the jury pool.
  — Stepheny Price , Michael Ruiz , Adam Sabes , Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 11 Dec. 2025
• Sadio believed that soccer should not be tainted just because of a bad call.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 26 Jan. 2026
• Thanks to Trump’s phone call, the tournament is tainted with a certain stench.
  — Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 6 July 2026
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In his view, answering yes would taint all his decisions in terms of politics.
  — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 8 May 2021
• 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
• The stone reflects how a place once labeled as tainted came to hold some of the finest materials in the state.
  — Daniel Wilkerson, CBS News, 2 Feb. 2026
• That means every angle needs to be screen-ready and not tainted by equipment, crew or the director.
  — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 19 Feb. 2026
• That means every angle needs to be screen-ready and not tainted by equipment, crew or the director.
  — John Wenzel, Denver Post, 11 Feb. 2026
• Does the fact that Burden is still pretty wealthy really taint this tale of heartbreak?
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
• If that data is tainted with bias, the algorithm, too, will inevitably be biased.
  — Igor Khalatian, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• 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
• The sarcasm taints the question but doesn’t invalidate it.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 24 Mar. 2026
• All of the overstuffed albums and Billboard hits he’s racked up since then are tainted with that context.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 12 May 2026
• The motion argues that such statements could taint the possible jury pool.
  — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 26 Oct. 2021
• Croft fears releasing the exhibits now will taint the jury selection process.
  — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 2 June 2021
• What was once a poignant effort to extend a state of ingenuousness is now tainted from the start.
  — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
• And around all this, the whiff of Epstein is tainting the president's achievements.
  — Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Aug. 2025
• In places with permanent snow cover, summer wildfires can taint the snowpack.
  — WIRED, 23 Oct. 2023
• 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
• This will probably taint it forever.
  — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 24 Mar. 2026
• To this day, their armed forces remain tainted by the weight of their misrule and repression some 50 years ago.
  — Kristina Mani, The Conversation, 23 Sep. 2025
• Suddenly, my spotless record was tainted.
  — Joe Garcia, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025

taint

2 of 2 noun

• The taint of it all has melted away.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025
• Grapes that are damaged by smoke taint might not make a very good wine.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 24 Sep. 2020
• Take care not to touch the glands, or your hands will carry their taint to the meat.
  — Maurice H. Decker, Outdoor Life, 17 Sep. 2025
• Sure enough, the tests showed small levels of smoke-taint compounds.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• The judge can also use a special master to do what the taint team would do.
  — Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2018
• 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
• The results indicated a low risk of smoke taint for the whites and rosés.
  — NBC News, 24 Sep. 2020
• Epstein is gone, but his taint lives on and there may well be more resignations to come.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 7 Sep. 2019
• Perhaps those bodies most charged with the hands-on care of these bodies also bear the taint.
  — Longreads, 14 Apr. 2020
• Such waste can choke marine life, hamper boaters and taint drinking water.
  — Chronicle Staff, SFChronicle.com, 22 Nov. 2020
• Clearly, the best way to prevent smoke taint would be to prevent wildfires in the first place.
  — Nicola Twilley, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
• 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
• 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
• It's believed the rite cleanses a soldier of war's taint and heads off postwar ailments.
  — Betty Reid, azcentral, 29 Aug. 2019
• 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
• Those were the controls; the smoke-taint tests had come back negative, Kurtzman said.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 3 Dec. 2020
• 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
• Even a week in politics or business can see off the taint of scandal or poor leadership.
  — Jim Osman, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
• The fact that the 2021 harvest was not threatened by fires or smoke taint was also a boon.
  — Liz Thach, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2022
• Once the flames are extinguished, the major issue for the wine industry will be smoke taint.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 27 Aug. 2020
• What White men choose to disregard comes to bear the taint of effluvium.
  — Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2021
• The taint of scandal still surrounds him, and many of his policies remain divisive.
  — Thomas Maresca, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2017
• Did the Dutch police feel that sense of taint—taint that perhaps comes with any undercover work?
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 29 Nov. 2022
• There is the taint of stigma and a reticence to talk openly about this kind of reproductive loss.
  — Tara Shafer, Redbook, 19 June 2018
• Cosby is hardly the first celebrity to experience a fall from grace or the taint of scandal.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 18 June 2017
• All that mattered was to be free of what, to him, was the Germanic taint of ‘Rosenberg’.
  — Jonathan Freedland, Time, 29 Dec. 2022
• But the presence of these compounds in grapes failed miserably as a diagnostic for smoke taint.
  — Nicola Twilley, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
• Collins runs the most impressive smoke-taint experiments in the country.
  — Nicola Twilley, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
• 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
• The film remains a curio in the franchise, a film that perhaps undeservingly has the taint of a flop.
  — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 24 Oct. 2022