How to Use untainted in a Sentence

untainted

adjective
  • One quick incision near the gills to bleed the fish will keep the meat fresh and untainted.
    — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 16 May 2024
  • This is a whole separate set of clothes that are untainted by the dirt from outside.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 27 June 2020
  • Because of this ban, the waters and air of the wilderness are untainted.
    — Star Tribune, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Cher's an untainted soul who has never done anything bad to anybody.
    — Ilana Kaplan, People.com, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Cher's an untainted soul who has never done anything bad to anybody.
    — Lia Beck, Peoplemag, 3 Mar. 2023
  • There’s a reverence here for the untainted world of the forest.
    — Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 5 Feb. 2022
  • There’s a desire for the kind of untainted connection that can redeem all of that.
    — Joe Fassler, The Atlantic, 19 June 2018
  • Linger there for some stargazing beneath a sky totally untainted by light.
    — Todd Plummer, Robb Report, 19 June 2026
  • The judge instead asked for more evidence that the money was untainted.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The condors return to release sites, like the one in Big Sur, for untainted food and to sleep.
    — Jesse Klein, Wired, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Applying cologne to clean skin allows the fragrance to mix with your body’s natural oils in a pure, untainted way.
    — Dallas News, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Shots of a lone figure dwarfed in the immensity of an untainted domain fill Zhao’s movies.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2021
  • Only monks, poets, and members of the band Fugazi remain untainted.
    — Michael Friedrich, The New Republic, 3 May 2022
  • But in the minds of many baseball fans, Maris' mark is the untainted real record that deserves the most adulation.
    — David K. Li, NBC News, 29 Sep. 2022
  • In the film, the gray-haired Samurai Priest is chasing a clique of vampires seeking untainted blood.
    — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The trick is selecting untainted herbs (chemicals are not welcome in our face bath) that are gentle yet robust.
    — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 9 Oct. 2023
  • To get the hardening benefit, the metal must be untainted.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Some other untainted catalyst will emerge that will once again excite people and provide a voice to the voiceless, but hip-hop won’t be it.
    — Spin Staff, Spin, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Reich acknowledges there's no form of untainted money.
    — Katia Riddle, NPR, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Some are fortunate to have a source of clean water and pipes that ensure that water reaches residents' homes untainted.
    — Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Roger Maris with 61 and Babe Ruth with 60 are the only untainted men to have reached that plateau.
    — Greg Cote, miamiherald, 19 Aug. 2017
  • Court documents show that one bottle had a greenish circle and was a different color than an untainted bottle.
    — Fox News, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Cheap, untainted talent is the foundation of reclamation projects.
    — Marcus Hayes, Philly.com, 15 May 2017
  • Nobody can refill the stadium and give the fans an untainted competition.
    — Tim Layden, SI.com, 3 Aug. 2017
  • What’s more, the new genre promised the possibilities of a more abstract and untainted language than what had come before in art history.
    — Jillian Steinhauer, The New Republic, 15 Oct. 2019
  • In a war’s early stages, ideas and ideals seem more pure, untainted by political calculation or the atrocities of one’s own side.
    — Shadi Hamid, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2017
  • These types of meteorites contain extremely old and largely untainted material from a very, very long time ago.
    — Mike Wehner, BGR, 9 Mar. 2021
  • To get the job done quickly, a nation needs an untainted hero to emerge from somewhere to offer the world a completely different perspective.
    — Richard Evans, Newsweek, 17 July 2014
  • Unlike Cricket, Olympia is earnest and sincere about her art in the way that only a young person untainted by cynicism can be.
    — Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2026
  • The curtain was ornately embroidered with images of bears, onion domes, and noble savages untainted by logic.
    — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023

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