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How to use the word stained in a Sentence?

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I’ve seen a lot in my career, but some things do stick with you, and this will stay stained in my memory for many years to come.

Chief Warren Hensman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Putin will be a pariah on the international stage. Any nation that countenances Russia's naked aggression against Ukraine will be stained by association.

United States

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Coming outside and seeing his wife holding his baby and a coat colored pink but stained with red blood from his child, it’s unimaginable. It is unimaginable that this is happening in our city.

Eric Adams

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

My husband and I stopped at a flea market during a road trip and saw the Ronald McDonald stained-glass piece, and I was inexplicably drawn to it, i walked away from it that day, but a whole year later, as we were driving through the same area, I asked him to stop at the flea market so I could see if [ the piece ] was still there.

Taylor Gecking

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I won't give up the fight for human rights, peace, freedom and democracy for the rest of my life, no matter the danger, discrimination and retaliation I will face, and no matter how my reputation will be stained, and no matter whether my future would be blacklisted, labelled, and ruined.

Simon Cheng

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Sadly, their character assassination tactics have so stained our state, that now citizens should expect that this is how elections will be won, victory is theirs. I believe that we've elected a wolf in sheep's clothing. But the question remains : at what cost to the people of Utah ? There is a cost, and we will pay it.

Mia Love

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I believe that( Kavanaugh's) nomination is going to be tainted. It will be stained by a badly broken process that has shattered the norm and broken the tradition Senate Judiciary.

Richard Blumenthal

Found on CNN
5 years ago

A ruthless gang that has violated our borders and transformed once-peaceful neighborhoods into blood-stained killing fields, horrible people by the way.

President Trump

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

For over a year now, House Bill 2 has been a dark cloud hanging over our great state, it has stained our reputation. It has discriminated against our people and it has caused great economic harm in many of our communities.

Roy Cooper

Found on CNN
7 years ago

For over a year now, House Bill 2 has been a dark cloud hanging over our great state. It has stained our reputation. It has discriminated against our people and it has caused great economic harm in many of our communities.

Roy Cooper

Found on CNN
7 years ago

To be rich or to be poor, that is the question." Hunger or homelessness can signify poverty and so can mental or emotional deficiency. Hunger or homelessness are lethal physical hazards, if they bear the taint of starvation or hypothermia. Mental or emotional deficiencies are inexorable perils, if they are stained by the black mark of depression or hopelessness. The magic antidote in any circumstances is seeing the bright side of things, possibly "with a little help". ( "Homeless down in the corner" )

Erik Pevernagie

added by anonymous
8 years ago

We are destined to live together, on the same soil in the same land. We, the soldiers who have returned from battle stained with blood, we who have seen our relatives and friends killed before our eyes, we who have attended their funerals and cannot look into the eyes of their parents, we who have come from a land where parents bury their children, we who have fought against you, the Palestinians. We say to you today in a loud and clear voice: Enough of blood and tears. Enough.

Yitzhak Rabin

added by anonymous
8 years ago

But, somehow there's power in the blood and the stained banner of blood brought it down and it will stay down.

Joesph Riley

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I believe past interrogation policies compromised our values, stained our national honor, and did little practical good, this amendment provides greater assurances that never again will the United States follow that dark path of sacrificing our values for our short-term security needs.

John McCain

Found on CNN
8 years ago

People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in, their true beauty is only seen if there is a light within.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

added by anonymous
13 years ago

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beuty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

added by anonymous
13 years ago

People are like stained glass windows they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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