How to Use unclean in a Sentence

unclean

adjective

• Many of their health problems were caused by unclean living conditions.
• Counter top near grill in kitchen is unclean and needs to be cleaned.
  — Pine Bluff Commercial, Arkansas Online, 30 May 2021
• Shelving and drawers in the kitchen are unclean and need to be cleaned.
  — Arkansas Online, 11 Apr. 2021
• Shelves in kitchen and dry storage area are unclean and need to be cleaned.
  — Pine Bluff Commercial, Arkansas Online, 18 Apr. 2021
• Floors and walls throughout kitchen are are unclean and need to be cleaned.
  — Pine Bluff Commercial, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2020
• So unclean that a church visit wouldn’t be out of the question.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 7 June 2018
• The story of Mallon holds many lessons, and the danger of unclean hands is one of them.
  — Sabrina Sholts, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2024
• Also much of the water is unclean because of the siege.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 21 Dec. 2017
• It was filled with cigarette smoke — the place was unclean and the rest rooms were a horror.
  — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 24 Oct. 2020
• Your [n-word] boy made the soccer field unclean by stepping on it.
  — Michael Lycklama, idahostatesman, 25 Jan. 2018
• Three compartment sink is unclean and needs to be cleaned.
  — Arkansas Online, 9 May 2021
• 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
• 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
• My parents have explained to me that, back home, all raw produce is unclean.
  — Connie Wang, refinery29.com, 7 Sep. 2022
• They were drawn as lazy, clannish, unclean, drunken brawlers who wallowed in crime and bred like rats.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 17 Mar. 2018
• 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
• 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
• Liz was bullied in school for being unclean and homeless.
  — Womensmedia, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2021
• The result has been both overt and covert messages that periods, and those having them, are unclean.
  — Teen Vogue, 15 Nov. 2018
• 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
• Circa Survive again changed the pace with a thrilling set of clean and unclean vocals from Anthony Green.
  — Houston Chronicle, 27 June 2019
• 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
• Doctors often refuse to treat the sweepers, who are seen as unclean and untouchable.
  — New York Times, 4 May 2020
• 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
• 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
• Furthermore, yoga is practiced on the floor, and tracking in dirt makes the studio unclean.
  — The Washington Post, The Know, 7 Sep. 2019
• Inspectors also saw rodent droppings on the restaurant’s floors and dirty knives that had been put away on a rack but were unclean.
  — Jacqueline Pinedo, Sacramento Bee, 7 June 2024
• 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
• Three compartment sink is visibly unclean and needs to be cleaned.
  — Arkansas Online, 21 Mar. 2021
• None of them seem to have thought of the millions of African women and children who have gotten sick or died from breathing fumes from unclean cooking fuels.
  — Mo Ibrahim, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024