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How to use the word stain in a Sentence?

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To have something this astonishingly curative languish because the marketplace isn’t configured to deliver curative therapies for rare diseases – it’s just an enormous stain.

Fyodor Urnov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A well-maintained cutting board should release smells fairly easily, some foods just stain, like beets, I would suggest washing immediately after prepping those highly-staining foods.

Meredith Abbott

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Some foods just stain, like beets, I would suggest washing immediately after prepping those highly-staining foods.

Meredith Abbott

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The achievement gaps that have been a stain on our education system are even worse today than they were three years ago, going back to the systems of before the pandemic isn’t good enough. We must resist the temptation to return to systems that were not serving all students well.

Miguel Cardona

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Kelisa Wing is an embarrassment to the Department and a stain on this country, she clearly has no business serving in government.

Kelisa Wing/Twitter

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The industry is a stain on our state and natural resources. But yes, of course I worry about the viability of getting a ban on fracking done when the industry is already so entrenched in Pennsylvania.

John Fetterman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

His blood stain has not been cleansed, and I get it that circumstances change. But what's the fundamental issue in the world right now ? It's the authoritarians. ... I don't think you go say,' Well, circumstances change. We sit down with a murderer who killed a journalist who lives in Virginia.' I think it's a big mistake. I'd meet with other — I'd meet with( the) foreign minister. I'd meet with the Saudi ambassador. I'd meet with the King, but I wouldn't meet with MBS.

Tim Kaine

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The invasion of Ukraine by the Belarusian army is a step with irreversible ramifications, it would be a shameful stain on relations with the Ukrainian people and would further isolate Belarus from the rest of the world, right up to the Iron Curtain, behind which Belarus would not be seen as an independent state, and life in the country would descend into poverty.

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In the short term,( Beijing) can not change its' no limits' partnership with Russia because it will imply that Xi was wrong to get China into the difficult position in the first place, xi is aiming for the third term, and this would be a main stain on Vladimir Putin record.

Yun Sun

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Trump's disgraceful firing of Ellen Knight is another stain on his presidency, those in the NSC and White House Counsel's office who tried to intimidate Ms. Ellen Knight, and then carried out Trump's personal vendetta, should be held to account.

John Bolton

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The Title 42 order has no basis in public health and the CDC is allowing itself to be used to justify mass expulsions of asylum seekers in violation of Robyn Barnard and international refugee law to harm's way, this policy of expelling asylum seekers is a stain on Robyn Barnard history and it is now part of the President and Vice President's legacy.

Robyn Barnard

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The antisemitic messages contained in the graffiti found along the Greenbelt put a literal and figurative stain on Boise Parks and Recreation workers community. This will not be tolerated, hate speech is reprehensible. It is not who( Boise Parks and Recreation workers) are as a city and is not part of Boise Parks and Recreation workers shared values. I invite all good people of Boise to stand with me, as I stand with Boise Parks and Recreation workers Jewish neighbors, to rebuke this hate.

Lauren McLean

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I am embarrassed. I am in shame, the hurt that I have caused to other people, not just to Robert Reeder... has left a permanent stain on me, society, the country, and I don't want to be ever remembered for being part of that crowd. I accept full responsibility for being there. I want you to know that it was not only a mistake, but the biggest mistake of my life. I wish I had a chance to take it back and redeem Robert Reeder.

Robert Reeder

Found on CNN
3 years ago

They were never told of the settlements. They were never told of the court hearings, they were never told of the dispersements. They want to know what happened to the money. They have to answer for what they did. It is a tremendous stain on the justice system in our state. I’m confident that at the end of this, truth will always come out.

Eric Bland

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

As long as the softener is diluted with water and the sponge is fully squeezed it will not stain your clothing.

Cary Colón

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

This is a stain, I think, that is going to be a very long time wearing off, if indeed it ever does, i suspect that it never will.

Brit Hume

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The deadly, idiotic handling of our Afghanistan withdrawal will be a permanent stain on America’s foreign policy and military leadership.

Kathy McCollum

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

And I think the President -- this is going to be a stain on this President and this presidency. And I think he's going to have blood on his hands for what they did.

Michael McCaul

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Let nature take back what is hers, it’s only a matter of time before it’s a brown stain and a collection of pig iron on the ocean floor.

Ed Kamuda

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Nothing had blown up. There was n’t a giant stain — like they had dumped the fuel — and the vehicles had kind of just moved around, the overall level of activity at the site was much lower. So to our mind, that looked like a launch.

Jeffrey Lewis

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

No matter how you feel about Mr. Floyd, about his life or his death, Mr. Floyd does not deserve to have this stain and take a wrongful conviction on his record.

Allison Mathis

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Knowing that the stain of past transgressions can never be eliminated and that the debt to people of color can never be repaid, Wingate University officials do believe this deeply upsetting news can serve as an opportunity for reflection, reconciliation and growth.

Wingate University

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The amount of risk being put on the public market is higher than it should be, and I worry if some of those fail catastrophically, and retail investors get hurt, it will stain the whole category.

Craig Lawrence

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Whittle it down to the folks who are being prosecuted and either prosecute them or dont, but dont just hang on to them, at great expense, we walk around with this thing around our necks. It does no good. It has no role for national security. Its just a big black stain that provides no benefit whatsoever.

Joseph Margulies

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

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