Sentence examples similar to stain- from inspiring English sources

This is the stain on our soul that prime minister Keating so movingly evoked at Redfern 21 years ago.

Photographs from 1909 show a much lighter tint to the wood than the dark treacly stain most will remember.

When the beetroot are cooked, drain, then slip off their skins – wear washing-up gloves so you don't stain your fingers pink; this will also protect them from the hot beets (if need be, leave the beets to cool a little first).

So much for that "stain on our soul".

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It will be a stain on Bahrain if his death comes before his freedom.

The good doctor expressed his dismay, but also bafflement that "a high proportion of the population are prepared to cry aloud about footling matters of uncleanliness such as a tomato sauce stain on a restaurant tablecloth, whilst they luxuriate on a plush seat in their faeces-stained pants".

Barcelona's Daniel Alves, who was an unused substitute in the semi-final, claimed the team had "failed our people" although he suggested one match should not stain the careers of those who had participated.

No, I want a book to kick the living daylights out of me and leave an indelible stain upon my psyche.

Apple's founder, Steve Jobs, initially pooh-poohed the name Imax cinemas, so named in 1968 immaculate conception has nothing to do with the birth of Jesus: it is the doctrine that Mary herself was conceived by her mother (St Anne) without the stain of original sin.

Use tissue paper – always white, as coloured can stain.