Sentence examples for it is unclean from inspiring English sources

So many Hindu and Muslim women have internalised the notion that it is unclean that they voluntarily stay away from temples and mosques when they have their periods.

"Rumors about polio vaccine abound: that it is a Western plot to sterilize girls, that it is unclean under Islamic law, that it contains the AIDS virus," he wrote.

St Paul points out that "nothing is unclean of itself, but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean"—a rule of thumb that would-be censors such as Ms Gearon's critics would do well to remember.

Scrub the cups with a sponge, the handles, the bottom and insides, getting stains off the cup, and also wipe clean the top, where you put your mouth on the cup, for, it is unclean to not wipe the mouth part.

"It was unclean, it was unkempt, and there were no sinks, no phones, no faxes, no way to communicate, no nothing," Mr. Sillen said.

For 1,200 years, an imperial edict banned the eating of meat because of a Japanese Buddhist belief that it was unclean.

She looked with a kind of distaste at the sheet music, holding it with unwilling fingers, as though it were unclean — and it was rather grubby, worn at the edges, torn at the crease where it folded.

Among other things, the association argued that it was unclean for QB Net to offer haircuts to clients without first washing their hair; soon, ordinances were passed across the country requiring all barbershops to install shampooing facilities, an expensive investment that slowed QB's growth.

Muslims, Moroccans among them, feel that it's unclean.

In Judaism as it has evolved, however, what is unclean has come to be perceived as abnormal and disruptive of the economy of nature, and what is clean is normal and constitutive of the economy and the wholeness of nature.

The first amendment that I would make to the Bible is that part in Leviticus where it says eating cloven-hoofed animals is unclean.