How do you use the word "taste" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "taste": I don't like your taste in color. Dried fish is not to my taste.

Taste Meaning

/teɪst/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounOne of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation.

nounThe sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation.

Sentence Examples

I don't like your taste in color.

Dried fish is not to my taste.

Black coffee leaves a bitter taste in the mouth.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

try sample preference

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The chef tested the ____ of the sauce and added more pepper to improve it.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

She has a very refined ____ in music and always chooses the most beautiful classical pieces to listen to today.

Word Origin & History

The verb is from Middle English tasten, borrowed from Old French taster (“to taste, touch or hit”), from unattested Vulgar Latin *tastāre (“to touch or feel”), from *taxitāre, an innovated iterative form of Classical Latin taxāre (“to touch sharply”), from tangere (“to touch, to grasp”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g-, which is assumed to have had the same meaning as tangere. The noun came from the verb, and the two conflated after English lost its infinitive suffix -en, though tasten was most likely already used nominatively (as a gerund), similar to Modern English tasting. Almost fully displaced native smack, from Middle English smac, smak, smacke, from Old English smæc, smæċċ (“taste, smatch”). Displaced English smatch, from Middle English smacchen, smecchen, from Old English smæċċan (“to taste; to smack”); displaced also Middle English buriȝen, from Old English bierġan (“to taste”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Like smell, taste has been found to imprint our minds with strong memories." — 2023 June 15, Rebecca Wallwork, “‘You had to be there’: Foods that taste better on home turf”, in CNN:

"That's very true indeed Sir Peter! after having married you I should never pretend to Taste again I allow." — 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, II.i:

""My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;[…]."" — 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

"The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years." — 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

"Sir Humphrey Appleby: Bernard, what do you want? / Bernard Woolley: I want to have a clear conscience. / […] / Sir Humphrey Appleby: When did you acquire this taste for luxuries (laugh track)?" — 1980 March 3, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “Official Secrets (Yes, Prime Minister)”, in Yes, Prime Minister, season 2, episode 2, spoken by Humphrey Appleby and Bernard Woolley (Nigel Hawthorne and Derek Fowlds):

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