Sentence examples for verboten from high-quality English sources.

• VERBOTEN!

• In any event, matches are verboten.

• Fuchsia, diamanté and logos are verboten, be they Dolce, Disney, Gucci or Gap.

• Some would dish about the industry or their competitors, but discussing clients was verboten.

• Tie clips and horizontal plaids are verboten.

• Some would dish about the industry or their competitors, but discussing clients was verboten.

• “He just has to be a little bit smarter about these things,” roared Can after the Englishman’s fine for a verboten trim.

• Avoiding conflicts of interest is a basic tenet of journalism, and intimate involvement with a source is considered verboten.

Use verboten in a sentence.

• Things like live concerts have resumed (though concerts of spittle-producing wind instruments are apparently still verboten).

• In the absence of other moistening components such as mayonnaise or tomatoes – clearly verboten – it also lubricates the meat.

• Until recently, certain categories of products, including vibrators and erotica, were pretty much verboten in the investing world.

• Handshakes had been verboten until midnight on Monday, as people were required to stay a metre apart from colleagues, or two metres from strangers.

• Not long thereafter, Blake confided to my wife that he’d met Brie in person, though that was strictly verboten, and then that he’d actually begun dating her—and, inevitably, had had sex with her.

• ., which owns Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, updates its animal-welfare policy later this year, exotic skins will join angora and fur on its list of verboten materials, according to a spokeswoman.

• Holwill said that colleagues have offered to buy fresh-baked samples from her — verboten, as test kitchen chefs are only allowed to offer samples (should they care to offer samples) first come first served.

• I was a long-time airport security screener – the guy who dutifully swabbed your daughter's Xbox in search of C-4 and threw away your son's verboten snow globe at Christmastime under the watchful eye of a micromanaging TSA manager.

verboten sentence examples

• For instance, those that do not have windows that open to the outside, permitting ventilation; have little or no access to outdoor space; or are small and open, with floor plans that were de rigueur just six months ago and now are verboten.

• "The clumsy system of public gatherings had long since been abandoned", along with touching strangers ("the custom had become obsolete"), now considered verboten in this new civilisation in which humans live in underground cells with an Alexa-like computer catering to their every whim.

• The president is still the president: He kept trying to shake hands at the March 13 press conference even though the CDC has declared such contact verboten, and he continues to insist on referring to the coronavirus as a "Chinese virus" on Twitter, which Trump's critics have decried as xenophobic and racist.

• The maths was brutal for Canberra’s grandstanding politicians: some hundreds of prisoners gave up and returned to Iraq and Afghanistan; a cohort was forced to return, some to their deaths; a handful were reunited with their families in Canada and Scandinavia; New Zealand took more than 500 (verboten this time); and all the rest reached their original destination: Australia.