taboos in English

noun
1
a social or religious custom prohibiting or forbidding discussion of a particular practice or forbidding association with a particular person, place, or thing.
Accurate statistics are hard to come by, especially in a country where social taboos and threats keep many victims silent.
verb
1
place under prohibition.
traditional societies taboo female handling of food during this period

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "taboos" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "taboos", or refer to the context using the word "taboos" in the English Dictionary.

1. You violated the Three Taboos!

2. My parents are champions at taboos.

3. Farce likes to tinker with such taboos.

4. Afrikaner writers have challenged other longstanding taboos

5. You never told her'cause of your dumb taboos.

6. There are taboos against appearing naked in public places.

7. Death is one of the great taboos in our culture.

8. Category: Censorship, Bluenoses, Taboos, Prohibitions and Other Cultural No-No’s, 1990s

9. At other times, converse sets of taboos could be quite useful.

10. This is usually because of societal taboos or fear of genetic defects.

11. Though are variety of taboos in halal, It'stands for a true height of human diet.

12. Numerous food taboos also limit food choice, particularly among pregnant women, children, and the sick.

13. Their main problem was breaking cultural taboos about women attending markets unaccompanied and trading alone.

14. England's taboo and custom Three taboos Cannot the gasser English have the custom which lines up.

15. The South itself, with its traditions and taboos, seems to drive the plot more than the characters.

16. Sniggers and the double meanings surrounded the subject which was one of the biggest taboos in our society.

17. Initially, Daigo and his family are unable to overcome the taboos and their squeamishness when faced with death.

18. Many of these taboos derive from patriarchal societies taking the power of women and turning it on its head.

19. With their old taboos discredited, they immediately go to pieces, disintegrate, and become re-sorts of vice and disease.

20. Naturally, the overall content of nonconformist works reads like a list of the worst taboos of Socialist Realist theory.

21. Their temerity was hardly less than that of painters who ignored the taboos imposed by convention, their dexterity even greater.

22. They want to find out what it would be like to be a woman freed from all those age-old taboos.

23. While there are taboos against hunting Bonobos in some communities surrounding their range, they are hunted as meat by other communities

24. The taboos against bathing disappeared with advancements in medical science; the worldwide medical community was even promoting the benefits of bathing.

25. The rules are formally protected by supposedly powerful religious taboos, breach of which will result in supernatural punishment for all concerned.

26. Consideration for ancestors is also demonstrated through adherence to fady, taboos that are respected during and after the lifetime of the person who establishes them.

27. This would be done by rituals including washings with cold water, regular purifying, abstinence and the observation of the common taboos like death, illness and blood.

28. It was such a thrill to be able to write whatever I wanted – to rifle through the box marked “TABOOS” and pull them out, one by one

29. To prepare properly, the negotiator must have an awareness of how information is Assimilated, history, concept of time, customs and practices, behavioral taboos, and geography of the given country

30. The stories recounted in Barbecued Husbands are as old as humanity: love and hate, jealousy and revenge, life after death, totems and taboos, erotic solitude, romantic love, mothers and daughters, masculinity

31. Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records Raum, Otto Friedrich Title: The social functions of Avoidances and taboos among the Zulu Published By: Original publisher Berlin, New York: de Gruyter

32. Indian society , all through the centuries , had hardly any middle class , and the accumulation of wealth was never easy during troubled times , in the midst of passing kingdoms and empires and religious and social taboos .

33. The Best Traditional Archeries The modern world has turned around all the traditional taboos to be forgotten, however there are other parts around the world where they still haven’t forgotten about their tradition of which is a good thing