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
• During that hearing and those held three years ago, there were few specifics about when politics may have tainted advice or the drafting of ordinances.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2023
• While she’s enjoyed a Pepsi on the go, the original song is inspired by Harvey Weinstein and isn’t played on tour anymore, tainting the taste.
  — Vulture, 20 Feb. 2023

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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
• Adding new openings—the option favored by some Democrats—still carries the taint of Franklin Roosevelt’s doomed effort to pack the Court in 1937.
  — Michael Bobelian, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
• Did the Dutch police feel that sense of taint—taint that perhaps comes with any undercover work?
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 29 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024