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
  • 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
  • Because of this ban, the waters and air of the wilderness are untainted.
    Star Tribune, 22 Dec. 2020
  • The condors return to release sites, like the one in Big Sur, for untainted food and to sleep.
    Jesse Klein, Wired, 11 Dec. 2020
  • There’s a reverence here for the untainted world of the forest.
    Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 5 Feb. 2022
  • This is a whole separate set of clothes that are untainted by the dirt from outside.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 27 June 2020
  • 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
  • There’s a desire for the kind of untainted connection that can redeem all of that.
    Joe Fassler, The Atlantic, 19 June 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Cher's an untainted soul who has never done anything bad to anybody.
    Lia Beck, Peoplemag, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Only monks, poets, and members of the band Fugazi remain untainted.
    Michael Friedrich, The New Republic, 3 May 2022
  • But the Checota-Moody spat was a gift from the campaign gods, leaving Feingold as the untainted alternative.
    Craig Gilbert, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 May 2021
  • So finding an untainted date for the wedding of Prince Harry to Meghan Markle was fraught with historical land mines.
    Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 17 May 2018
  • 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
  • American Pharoah was supposed to relieve us of our misgivings, to be the metaphor for fresh and pure achievement, courageous and untainted.
    Bernie Lincicome, chicagotribune.com, 19 May 2017
  • In his search for answers Imhoof journeys from a huge factory-like bee colony in California to a refuge for an untainted strain of bees in Australia.
    Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2019
  • 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
  • People buy our products, come to our store, rent our equipment and come to Ely because of the Boundary Waters and its reputation as pure and untainted.
    Star Tribune, 14 Feb. 2021
  • But there’s no Cordelia here, no child whose love for her father, in the waning and waxing of his faculties, is simple and true and untainted by concerns of personal gain.
    Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2022
  • 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 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
  • The soaring promo video at 2021’s Meta Connect suggested that the metaverse would remain untainted by the limitations of the real world—even, perhaps, the laws of physics.
    WIRED, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Quinn intentionally made it in Irish as a way to reclaim the notion of an untainted, true Irish identity in the Connemara region of the west of Ireland, away from bourgeois life.
    Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • Nor is there one untainted with gut-sure self-loathing, a gift from our God, our history, and every southern mother who raised us to respect our puny place in this damned, transitory world.
    Allison Glock, Esquire, 1 Nov. 2014
  • The gist of Law and Justice’s approach is to water down Polish history to a morality tale of untainted heroism and martyrdom.
    Foreign Affairs, 24 July 2023
  • The Netherlands have been utterly fearless, untainted by any history and forging their own path through the tournament.
    SI.com, 5 July 2019
  • Outdoorsy folks who want to spend their time hiking and biking through untainted valleys, mountains, and countryside will appreciate the chance to explore the newest European country.
    Jamie Spain, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Mar. 2024

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