How to Use verboten in a Sentence

verboten

adjective
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  • Cell phones are strictly verboten on the course among the fans, ahem, patrons.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2021
  • Shorts and flipflops may be welcomed, but dogs are still verboten.
    — Roger Showley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Feb. 2018
  • Yet one figure seems verboten in the craft world: calories.
    — William Bostwick, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2018
  • At the time, bad-mouthing the Soviet Union was almost verboten.
    — Bill Donahue, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2022
  • At one point, a thousand words were being added to the software's verboten list per day.
    — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 23 May 2017
  • Black clothes, formerly verboten, are all over the racks.
    — Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Second, except for the hint of blue in the painting at left, color seems verboten.
    — Catherine Romano, WSJ, 29 June 2018
  • Collectibles such as stamps, coins, rugs or antiques have long been verboten.
    — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 17 June 2022
  • Bare midriffs are verboten (even though boys often go shirtless at their camps).
    — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 June 2021
  • Going to the pool was verboten, so swimming was out, isolation was in.
    — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2020
  • Even asking to do so was oftentimes a verboten act and could stall your career.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Would have been sacked a handful of times but was saved because croaking the quarterback was verboten.
    — Jim McBride, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Jan. 2021
  • Not too long ago, audiences turned to late night not to process the world but to forget the world; nightmare fodder so close to bedtime was verboten.
    — Jessica M. Goldstein, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Nothing of the kind could currently happen in the U.S., where editing the genomes of human embryos is still verboten.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 26 June 2017
  • The idea of putting a life-size anything in any of my small-scale photographs was absolutely verboten in my work.
    — Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 22 Oct. 2018
  • That's hot enough to hold an impromptu wiener roast in the backyard, or to make gooey and melty chocolate s'mores on your next camping trip where campfires are verboten.
    — Matt Jancer, Wired, 4 Aug. 2021
  • But should climate denialism be the only verboten point of view on Sunday shows?
    — Jason Zengerle, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2021
  • Bringing growlers and crowlers – take-home beer containers – is verboten for now, Macatangay says.
    — Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Nov. 2019
  • Some subjects, such as human rights on the mainland, seem likely to become verboten.
    — Doug Bandow, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
  • There’s another sometimes verboten term that Billig Rich isn’t afraid to use.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 25 Sep. 2021
  • Discussing what happened at the end of last season is verboten, however.
    — Rainer Sabin, AL.com, 26 Dec. 2017
  • Blackface, of course, is the most verboten and overtly offensive of costume choices.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Homemade yogurt dressed with wheat germ and honey, because sugar was verboten, of course.
    — Jonathan Kauffman, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Jan. 2018
  • In the decades since 1965, elite opinion makers have rendered this anxiety verboten.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 18 Jan. 2018
  • As for unions, the word is practically verboten, despite some noble efforts to the contrary.
    — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2021
  • As in a lot of traditional bathhouses in Germany, bathing suits are verboten, which takes some getting used to.
    — William Cook, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Bloodbuzz will also be home to a lineup of domestic craft beers strictly verboten on Prost!
    — Heidi Williams, OregonLive.com, 6 June 2018
  • There are indeed no words if the only appropriate ones are verboten.
    — Jeremy Stahl, Slate Magazine, 3 Oct. 2017
  • That also applies in your own hotel for the first two weeks, when public transportation is verboten in a city of gridlocked street traffic.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2021
  • Others remain intriguingly opaque: posts about slow cooker liners (thin plastic bags that sit in the crock and minimize washing up) are verboten.
    — Olivia Potts, Longreads, 17 Nov. 2022

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