How to Use unclean in a Sentence
unclean
adjective- Many of their health problems were caused by unclean living conditions.
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Counter top near grill in kitchen is unclean and needs to be cleaned.
—Pine Bluff Commercial, Arkansas Online, 30 May 2021
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Shelving and drawers in the kitchen are unclean and need to be cleaned.
—Arkansas Online, 11 Apr. 2021
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Shelves in kitchen and dry storage area are unclean and need to be cleaned.
—Pine Bluff Commercial, Arkansas Online, 18 Apr. 2021
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Floors and walls throughout kitchen are are unclean and need to be cleaned.
—Pine Bluff Commercial, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2020
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So unclean that a church visit wouldn’t be out of the question.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 7 June 2018
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The story of Mallon holds many lessons, and the danger of unclean hands is one of them.
—Sabrina Sholts, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2024
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Also much of the water is unclean because of the siege.
—Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 21 Dec. 2017
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It was filled with cigarette smoke — the place was unclean and the rest rooms were a horror.
—Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 24 Oct. 2020
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Your [n-word] boy made the soccer field unclean by stepping on it.
—Michael Lycklama, idahostatesman, 25 Jan. 2018
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Three compartment sink is unclean and needs to be cleaned.
—Arkansas Online, 9 May 2021
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Dogs, seen in biblical times as unclean scavengers, were a kind of stand-in for the devil.
—Jake Coyle, Detroit Free Press, 4 Dec. 2021
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Here, where much of the water was unclean and people often had to slosh knee-deep through mud and human waste.
—Gaia Vince, Quartz, 8 June 2019
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My parents have explained to me that, back home, all raw produce is unclean.
—Connie Wang, refinery29.com, 7 Sep. 2022
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They were drawn as lazy, clannish, unclean, drunken brawlers who wallowed in crime and bred like rats.
—Michael Harriot, The Root, 17 Mar. 2018
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Then go to the sink, lather up and kill germs on our hands, before proceeding to tap away at unclean screens on our wrist.
—Dalvin Brown, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2020
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This can influence risk if a student were to touch their face with unclean hands at any point during the school day.
—Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 22 July 2020
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Liz was bullied in school for being unclean and homeless.
—Womensmedia, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2021
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The result has been both overt and covert messages that periods, and those having them, are unclean.
—Teen Vogue, 15 Nov. 2018
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O’Neill’s entire style of art was unique, with unclean lines and awkward creatures and colors.
—Jevon Phillips, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2022
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Circa Survive again changed the pace with a thrilling set of clean and unclean vocals from Anthony Green.
—Houston Chronicle, 27 June 2019
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There's no access to food or any water, clean or unclean, in the areas they're being asked to evacuate to.
—ABC News, 5 Dec. 2023
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Doctors often refuse to treat the sweepers, who are seen as unclean and untouchable.
—New York Times, 4 May 2020
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And the reach-in cooler gaskets, hood filters, bottom of the reach-in freezer and cutting boards remained unclean.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2024
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Will the bunny be bare, just open, left exposed on an unclean surface like a sidewalk or next to an ant pile in the grass, forgotten, alone?
—Chris Lykins, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Mar. 2018
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Furthermore, yoga is practiced on the floor, and tracking in dirt makes the studio unclean.
—The Washington Post, The Know, 7 Sep. 2019
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In this system, literal dirt in the form of blood or coal helps mark the morally compromised worker as unclean.
—Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 10 Sep. 2021
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Three compartment sink is visibly unclean and needs to be cleaned.
—Arkansas Online, 21 Mar. 2021
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My personal favorite character, The Unclean Beast, looks like an cross between a panther, a bear, a wolf and a corpse.
—Earnest Cavalli, WIRED, 19 Mar. 2009
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Chicken breast, roast beef and turkey ham were outside of their proper holding temperatures on Wednesday, the report said, and the floors under the prep line were unclean.
—Jacqueline Pinedo, Sacramento Bee, 8 Mar. 2024
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