TASTE in a Sentence

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294 example sentences for TASTE, such as:

1. The fish had a queer taste.
2. I never heard of such bad taste.
3. It's all a matter of personal taste.
4. You have such execrable taste, my pet.
5. I have recently acquired a taste for olives.

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 Meanings and Examples of TASTE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
taste
 v.  have experience or enjoyment; take a sample of; have flavor
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Ethan's love of nature did not take the form of a taste for agriculture.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  And better taste than to wear that veil to advertise a grief I'm sure you never felt.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
3  Without sugar or cream it was bitter as gall, for the sorghum used for "long sweetening" did little to improve the taste.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
4  Frank had hoped she was only teasing or playing a joke on him, a joke of questionable taste, but he soon found she meant what she said.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
5  I never heard of such bad taste.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
6  I admit that it's not in the best of taste, coming at this time, but I have a very good excuse for my lack of breeding.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
7  I had hoped that association with me might improve your taste.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
8  You have such execrable taste, my pet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
9  Mr. Gryce's interest in Americana had not originated with himself: it was impossible to think of him as evolving any taste of his own.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
10  She knew she could not afford it, and she was afraid of acquiring so expensive a taste.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
11  This gave her a sense of reflected superiority, and she did not need Mrs. Bart's comments on the family frumps and misers to foster her naturally lively taste for splendour.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
12  His own taste was in the line of less solid and more highly-seasoned diet; but hunger makes any fare palatable, and there had been times when Mr. Stepney had been reduced to a crust.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
13  She felt a stealing sense of fatigue as she walked; the sparkle had died out of her, and the taste of life was stale on her lips.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
14  Everything about him accorded with the fastidious element in her taste, even to the light irony with which he surveyed what seemed to her most sacred.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
15  Well, she would not be too eager in this case; she would give her suitor a longer taste of suspense.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
Example Sentence: (84 in 6 pages)
16  In a consumer taste test, Coke went up against Pepsi.
17  I like the taste of wine and enjoy trying different kinds.
18  My aunt made a few pointed remarks about my taste in clothes.
19  The fish had a queer taste.
20  You need to use fresh herbs to get the authentic Italian taste.
21  The price of the house included many existing fixtures and fittings that were not to our taste.
22  He has the most awful taste so you can probably imagine what his house looks like.
23  When the fruit is scarcest, its taste is sweetest.
24  The designer has received rave reviews from such arbiters of taste as Elle magazine.
25  All desires have in them little pleasant taste but rather much potential suffering.
26  She'd been a bit too lavish with the salt, so the soup didn't taste nice.
27  It's all a matter of personal taste.
28  The flavours intermingle to produce a very unusual taste.
29  To make the bland taste more interesting, the locals began perking it up with local produce.
30  I have recently acquired a taste for olives.