Use clean in a sentence
Sentences starting with clean
- Clean shaven, with snowy linen and lace, his own natural hair, silver white, tied in a queue behind, he had large eloquent wondering eyes that seemed always looking, looking beyond the thing he saw. [11]
- Clean masses are not made by individuals standing back till the rest become clean. [5]
- Clean and fresh as if you'd been to a fete, not like us sinners of the line," cried Rostov, with martial swagger and with baritone notes in his voice, new to Boris, pointing to his own mud-bespattered breeches. [2]
- Clean cloth, napkin and table furniture, white sugar, a vast hunk of excellent butter, good bread, first class coffee with pure milk, fried fish just caught. [5]
Sentences ending with clean
- The swell people wouldn't call anybody but themselves 'clean,' and those others would drop sort of meekly into their way of talking and they wouldn't call themselves clean. [5]
- May I not wash in them and be clean? [5]
- I only want to make you understand that you are not clean. [5]
- He was going to fight clean. [11]
- You may put this down as a fact: that out of every fifty men, forty-nine are clean. [5]
- Hentzner, however, thought the streets handsome and clean. [4]
- The beekeeper closes the hive, chalks a mark on it, and when he has time tears out its contents and burns it clean. [2]
- They join at that point--the pale blue Jumna, apparently clean and clear, and the muddy Ganges, dull yellow and not clean. [5]
- But no, he swept the place clean. [9]
- Are all merchantmen so clean? [9]
Short sentences using clean
- The water is not clean. [5]
- It clean stumped me. [5]
- They were clean, dry, roomy. [13]
- Clothes are never clean. [5]
- Tom was clean beat. [5]
Sentences containing clean two or more times
- But they began to notice that some streets were quiet and clean, and, though never so quiet and clean as Boston streets, that they wore an air of encouraging reform, and suggested a future of greater and greater domesticity. [8]
- And doost tha rememba that tha would have his apron too, for tha said that if it kept a bishop clean, wouldna it keep highwaymen clean, whose work was not so clean as a bishop's? [11]
- It is not parties that make or save countries or that build them to greatness--it is clean men, clean ordinary citizens, rank and file, the masses. [5]
- Instead of speaking of a woman as a lady, you substitute clean and say she's a clean person. [5]
- Berg and Boris, having rested after yesterday's march, were sitting, clean and neatly dressed, at a round table in the clean quarters allotted to them, playing chess. [2]
- It was whitewashed and clean, but it had a slight jail odor; its only furniture was a narrow iron bedstead, with a tick of straw and some blankets, not too clean. [5]
More example sentences with the word clean in them
- And insomuch as you were even then serving the country faithfully and bravely, and had a clean and honourable record of service, the whole of the lands were given to you. [9]
- My name is written on clean paper now, blessed be the name of the Queen! [11]
- She bathed the wound--the bullet had passed clean through the fleshy part of the arm--and then carefully tied the scarf round it over her handkerchief. [11]
- I said I would, I meant it I'll marry you just as soon as I can clean up this mess of a strike. [9]
- You know I would a thousand times rather bake your cakes and clean your silver! [9]
- Dozens of men with necks swathed in napkins, rushed from barber-shops, lathered to the eyes or with one cheek clean shaved and the other still bearing a hairy stubble. [5]
- To Honora, gifted with imagination, the house had an odour all its own; a rich, clean odour significant, in later life, of wealth and luxury and spotless housekeeping. [9]
- I stand here with clean hands, impelled solely by the impulse of my heart, to plead for the Queen. [10]
- If your friend will do us humble folks so much honor, I beg he will step into our room; it is clean, is it not sir? [10]
- Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of no use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed instrumentalities, or to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity. [6]
- If you wear white clothes you are clean, and your cleaning bill gets so heavy that you have to take care. [5]
- But the thing which clean broke my heart was something which happened in front of our old barrack in a square, while we were enduring the spectacle of a man being boiled to death in oil for counterfeiting pennies. [5]
- You don't know whether they are clean or not, because you can't see. [5]
- What clean clothes, what good faces, what tranquil contentment, what prosperity, what genuine freedom, what superb government. [5]
- The whole family were poorly and cheaply dressed; and the clothing, although neat and clean, showed many evidences of having seen long service. [5]
- All about me were gray heaps of ashes, and bones of deer and elk and buffalo scattered, some picked clean, some with the meat and hide sticking to them. [9]
- And the songs were clean songs, and some of them were hallowed by tender associations. [5]
- Soon the two were clean cut off from the French army, and must fight to the death or surrender. [11]
- Indeed, my clothes were by no means handsome, and save for my well-shaven face and clean handkerchief I was an ill-favoured spectacle; but I tried to bear my shoulders up as we marched through dark reeking corridors, and presently came suddenly into well-lighted passages. [11]
- In Frankfort everybody wears clean clothes, and I think we noticed that this strange thing was the case in Hamburg, too, and in the villages along the road. [5]
- He simply stopped washing, leaned forward and surveyed the clean, blank ground a moment, and then remarked: "Mph! [5]
- The world was washed clean, that was sure. [11]
- His record, therefore, was fairly clean until two days after the escape from the Thames and the sighting of the Portsmouth fleet. [11]
- She said it was a mean practice and wasn't clean, and I must try to not do it any more. [5]
- I've got that vote yet, and I've kept it clean, ready to deposit at some other election. [5]
- In Sydney I visited a huge establishment where they kill and clean and solidly freeze a thousand sheep a day, for shipment to England. [5]
- The streets were very clean, very sunny, very empty, and very dull. [12]
- The house looks very clean, and, I think, is not damp; there is, however, still a great deal to do in the way of settling and arranging,--enough to keep me disagreeably busy for some time to come. [14]
- The house was very clean, and the tidy landlady gave us as good a dinner as she could of the inevitable green tea, toast, and salt fish. [4]
- I can't make up my mind to settle down to a clean collar and going to church on Sundays, and all that. [11]
- There is something unusual about him, something clean cut. [9]
- No, I can't understand why the firebug didn't let us get clean away; for if the Saadat stays here, he'll be where he can stop the underground mining. [11]
- Well, I'm not trying to smooth it over, I suppose there was something crooked about me from the start, but I just went clean to hell with that money, and when I heard he'd gone away, I came back here. [9]
- Everything neat and trim and clean like the town. [5]
- I've served three traders here, and my record is pretty clean, Mr. Fyles. [11]
- When it is too dark to see any other object, one can still see the white turnpikes of France and Italy; and they are clean enough to eat from, without a table-cloth. [5]
- On the way to the ridges they passed clean pasture fields, bowlders, gray rocks, aged cedars with flat tops like the stone-pines of Italy. [4]
- He went on to tell me what he knew of the matter in his clean, pithy sentences, often brutally cynical, as though he had not a spark of interest in any of it. [9]
- So we've got to see that her, record is kept clean as a mutineer. [11]
- He was unable to procure the Greek fire, but he constructed a vicious torpedo which would have answered the purpose, but the first one prematurely exploded in his wood-house, blowing it clean away, and setting fire to his house. [5]
- I shall say to myself, You look fine, Madam but your feet are not clean and you smell like a camel. [5]
- People ought not to keep their troubles to themselves, but tell them; that's why they have tongues, and yesterday was the right time to make a clean breast of everything that grieves you. [10]
- His plate seemed to him not quite clean, and pointing to a spot he flung it away. [2]
- Tell your mother to have some clean shirts and things ready for you, and we will be off day after to-morrow morning. [6]
- I want you to have a clean bed and no snakes in it! [7]
- It was strange to Denzil that the lumber-king, short, thin, careless in his clothes but singularly clean in his person, should have a son so little like himself, and also so little like his mother. [11]
- He is clean to de face, no beard--no, nosing like dat. [11]
- I went myself to clean up and make some broth, but that toad of a Portugais shut the door in my face. [11]
- There was this to be said for Noreen-- that she kept her home spotlessly clean, even with two indifferent servants. [11]
- I am going to be myself--my genuine self, my honest self, my natural self, clear and clean of sham and folly and fraud, and worthy of you. [5]
- My lodge ain't to be bought, nor anything in it--not even the broom to keep it clean of any half-breeds that'd enter it without leave. [11]
- Why, there was times when I clean forgot he was President of the United States. [9]
- He had gone through the ground glass door with the firm intention of making a clean breast of the ownership of Hester. [9]
- Beautiful ponds, as they modestly call themselves,--one of which, Walden, is as well known in our literature as Windermere in that of Old England,--lie quietly in their clean basins. [6]
- It most busted them, but they made up the six thousand clean and clear. [5]
- The cooks prepared their savory messes on large, clean tables, and the scene of their labors, which, though enclosed by cords was open to public gaze was surrounded by a small market, where however only the choicest of wares were displayed. [10]
- I even chose the very word I would use: "You've forgotten the clean clothes, Jane. [5]
- From early morning the smart clean troops were on the move, forming up on the field before the fortress. [2]
- And down in the small of his back Eliphalet listened for the crack of a pistol, and feared that a clean hole might be bored there any minute. [9]
- Francois tumbled from the sky light--in the second-story hall clean down to the first floor--" Everybody--"Mercy! [5]
- Flying half-way across the room, it alighted on the table, and a little mud from the heel dropped on the clean scoured surface. [11]
- That was what the room conveyed to her--the spirit of the soldier, bare, clean, strong, sparse: a workshop and a chamber of sleep in one, like the tent of an officer on the march. [11]
- The city wastes the money it's paid to clean the streets with, and the poor have to suffer, for they can't afford to pay twice, like the rich. [8]
- The cucumbers cumber the ground,--great yellow, over-ripe objects, no more to be compared to the crisp beauty of their youth than is the fat swine of the sty to the clean little pig. [4]
- He reflected on the fact that clean wounds closed quickly in the healing upland air. [13]
- Don't you know that we can go and report him to Government, and you'll get a clean solid eighty shillings bounty? [5]
- But the item that pleased us most, and made us regret our late advent, was that for two shillings we could have had a "good lodging, with clean sheets. [4]
- First the back takes the click of the whip like a damned washboard, and you see the ridges rise and go purple and red, and the man has his breath knocked clean out of him with every blow. [11]
- Yet I felt strongly drawn to her, and as the new-made wife knew that she and I were as one she did not forbid me from going upstairs, where Pernhart had made dead Gertrude's room all clean and fresh for Ann. [10]
- They clattered their steins on the table and sang wonderful Jena songs, while Stephen was lifted up and his soul carried off to far-away Saxony,--to the clean little University town with its towers and crooked streets. [9]
- The halls and stairs were kept very clean and nice. [8]
- The uncarpeted stone stairs and floors, the old drawers propped on wood, were all scrupulously clean and neat. [14]
- His dream-people were so fine that he grew to lament his shabby clothing and his dirt, and to wish to be clean and better clad. [5]
- This secluded and silent solitude this clean, soft air and this enchanting view of Florence, the great valley and the snow-mountains that frame it are the right conditions for work. [5]
- Resolved, that nobody should put on a clean collar oftener than his neighbor does. [4]
- I had never seen a clean, bare precipice stretching up five thousand feet above me before, and I never shall expect to see another one. [5]
- But I don't see how you can expect me to follow these people home and make them clean up their garbage and wash their babies. [9]
- The patch I scratched over for the turnips, and left as clean as earth, is already full of ambitious "pusley," which grows with all the confidence of youth and the skill of old age. [4]
- His thin, worn, sallow face was covered with deep wrinkles, which always looked as clean and well washed as the tips of one's fingers after a Russian bath. [2]
- And when the sagacious and enlightened man expressed his approval, nay his admiration of the broad clean streets of the town, the handsome open places, and particularly handsome buildings which abounded on all sides, the young Alexandrian who was proud of his city was delighted. [10]
- Quick, Manette, my sabre polish; I'll clean my musket, and to-morrow I will go to Pontiac. [11]
- The floor was rubbed to an immaculate cleanliness, stained yellow, and on it lay clean woven mats. [9]
- There was a room, dining-room in summer, and kitchen dining-room in winter, as clean as aged hands could scrub and dust it, hung about with stray pictures from illustrated papers, and a good old clock in the corner "ticking" life, and youth, and hope away. [11]
- There was no room in her clean house for anyone who reminded her of this outrage and believed that she had really committed so shameful an act. [10]
- All under one roof, and all clean, spacious, comfortable "grottoes. [5]
- Again, the tired roan shied back from the bleached bones of a traveller, picked clean by wolves. [9]
- I prefer the rifle: it makes a clean job of death, and does not prematurely stuff the bird with globules of lead. [4]
- When Anna Mikhaylovna returned from Count Bezukhov's the money, all in clean notes, was lying ready under a handkerchief on the countess' little table, and Anna Mikhaylovna noticed that something was agitating her. [2]
- This life, without responsibility or clean clothes, may continue as long as the reader desires. [4]
- We're going to reap this harvest all alone; we're going to Chicago you clean off the table! [11]
- When Prince Andrew reached the room prepared for him and lay down in a clean shirt on the feather bed with its warmed and fragrant pillows, he felt that the battle of which he had brought tidings was far, far away from him. [2]
- The strawberries, the raspberries, the celery, the turnips, wave green above the clean earth, with no enemy in sight. [4]
- In the beginning Quincy had the aspect and ways of a model New England town: and these she has yet: broad, clean streets, trim, neat dwellings and lawns, fine mansions, stately blocks of commercial buildings. [5]
- He also furnished pine benches and chairs for the legislature, and covered the floors with clean saw-dust by way of carpet and spittoon combined. [5]
- Others are half pierced through, and the clean impression is there in the rock, as smooth and as shapely as if it were done in putty. [5]
- She was leaning over, with part of her upper deck above water, and you could see every little chimbly-guy clean and clear, and a chair by the big bell, with an old slouch hat hanging on the back of it, when the flashes come. [5]
- Suppose they come out of quarantine with a clean bill of health? [11]
- The linen was ordinary, the rooms small; but all--he did not take this into account--irreproachably clean. [11]
- Madame Bouvet's tavern, or hotel, or whatever she was pleased to call it, was not immaculately clean. [9]
- There was only one room, rather dark and bare, but it was clean and neat. [13]
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