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How to use bleach in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb, adjective

Bleach means a chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening. Example: “Once coral bleaching begins, corals tend to continue to bleach even if the stressor is removed.”

Examples of bleach by meaning

verbTo lose color due to stress-induced expulsion of symbiotic unicellular algae.

  • Once coral bleaching begins, corals tend to continue to bleach even if the stressor is removed.

verbTo make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty.

  • semantically bleached words that have become illocutionary particles

More sentences with bleach

  • Coral bleaching threatens to disrupt the population equilibria of the reef’s fishes.From the entry fishes
  • I suddenly remembered I needed to buy bleach, so scribbled it down on my shopping list.From the entry scribble
  • Pour a glug of bleach into the toilet.From the entry glug
  • Corals mount a two-stage response to heat stress, first bleaching and then dying.2023 August 7, Clive Cookson, “Missing ice and bleached coral: the sudden warming of the oceans”, in Financial Times. From the entry mount
  • They were bleached away by the dollarbucks piled up in Stallone's swimming pool.2022 June, Cian Cruise, Dad Bod: Portraits of Pop Culture Papas, Dundurn Press, →ISBN, unnumbered page. From the entry dollarbuck
  • THE TRUMPTINI 1 part bleach 1 part disinfectant 1 Tide pod Take with your morning covfefe.2021 January 18, “Section 7”, in KORONAKOMİK, Holistence Publications, →ISBN, page 60. From the entry covfefe
  • Since this autofluorescence component bleaches rapidly, we deliberately prebleach it before starting the experiment.2012, Lawrence D. Robb-Gaspers, Paul A. Anderson, Andrew P. Thomas, “Imaging Whole Organs – Single cell [Ca²⁺]ᵢ measurements in the…. From the entry prebleach
  • His skin, normally like polished bronze, was drained flat, as if he'd been bleached.2011, Chyna Chyna, FAM: Rolling in a London Girl Gang. From the entry crep
  • But who would actually accept a stranger's monogrammed kerchief, no matter how starched and bleached?2008, Sara Jane Stoner, The Sis, page 98. From the entry tissueless
  • They can be safely bleached, soaked, washed and dried for years.2008, Daniel Allen, Cheryl Benn, Sue Pullon, Margot Schwass, The New Zealand Pregnancy Book, Bridget Williams Books, →ISBN, page 174. From the entry flat nappy
  • Phosgene has the odor of new-mown hay and chlorine has a strong bleach or chlorine odor.2006, James T. Thurman, Practical Bomb Scene Investigation. From the entry new-mown
  • The whole case fluouresces briefly then immediately fades, indicating the insides were bleached.2004, Mike Flaherty, Corinne Marrinan, Anthony E. Zuiker, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Companion, page 201. From the entry luminol
  • If you use a laundromat, don't lug along all those detergent boxes and bleach bottles.2004, Graham Haley, Rosemary Haley, Haley's Hints, Penguin, →ISBN, page 133. From the entry laundromatting
  • In high school, he bleached his hair and began a series of shopliftings and bicycle thefts.2000, Elmer H Johnson, Carol Johnson, Linking Community and Corrections in Japan, page 180. From the entry shoplifting
  • Her hair is the shade of bleached blond I particularly associate with upper-class southern women.2000, Leah Steward, chapter 8, in Body of a Girl, Viking Press, page 118. From the entry bleached blond
  • The traditional sequence of pre-treatment is shortened by single stage bleaching, where kiers are still in use.1999, Samir Ranjan Karmakar, Chemical Technology In The Pre-Treatment Processes Of Textiles, Elsevier, page 65. From the entry kier
  • Leaves no redness, no burn’ - or nostrums for bleaching the skin.1954, Ian Fleming, “Nigger Heaven”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 50. From the entry hot comb
  • “That of course should be bleached to match your new hair & eyes.1924 March 23, Wallace Irwin, “Letters Of A Japanese Schoolboy: Togo Prefers His Own Style Of Beauty”, in The Sun, volume 24, number 12D…. From the entry afraidly
  • Same blue serge dress she had two years ago, the nap bleaching.1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC. From the entry wispish
  • Jack Bigelow’s usually sunny face was bleached to the ashiness of fear and despair.1901, Onoto Watanna, chapter 13, in A Japanese Nightingale, New York: Harper, page 148. From the entry ashiness
  • Her hair is light brown enough that she doesn't look like a motherflipping fool when she bleaches it white blond.2022, Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 20. From the entry motherflipping
  • The trains were taken out of service and these toilets have now been drained, bleached and had their tanks completely re-filled.2021 September 8, “RMT strike threat over legionella on Thameslink trains”, in RAIL, number 939, page 18. From the entry legionella
  • Stands of staghorn coral were bleaching white.2021, Richard Powers, Bewilderment, Hutchinson Heinemann, page 212. From the entry staghorn coral
  • My kayfabe wife has enormous fake breasts, bleach blonde hair, and a nose that is too small for her face.2013, Saul Lemerond, "Cowboys in Rainbow City", Kayfabe & Other Stories, pp. 43–4. From the entry kayfabe
  • Venetian women who wanted coppery hair colors applied bleaching mixtures, such as one that contained alum, sulfur, soda, and rhubarb.2006, Victoria Sherrow, Encyclopedia of Hair: A Cultural History, page 155. From the entry coppery
  • Bleaching and stippling on viburnum foliage infested with greenhouse thrips.2004, Steve H. Dreistadt, Pests of Landscape Trees and Shrubs: An Integrated Pest Management Guide, Picture caption, page 157. From the entry thrips
  • The standing woman is overweight, with scraped-back and barretted bleach- blond hair and a jowly face of detonated capillaries.2004, Glen Duncan, Death of an Ordinary Man, →ISBN. From the entry barrette
  • Dioxin or TCDD is a chemical contaminant that occurs as chlorine byproduct of the paper bleaching manufacturing process.2002, Elaine A. Moore, “Environmental Triggers of Autoimmune Disease”, in Autoimmune Diseases and Their Environmental Triggers, Jefferson…. From the entry dioxin
  • In some processes this fixer may be preceded by a silver bleach to rehalogenize silver image not oxidized by the dye-bleach.2000, Ralph Jacobson, Sidney Ray, Geoffrey G Attridge, Manual of Photography. From the entry rehalogenize
  • At any rate, as she lowered her head a lock of bleached blond hair fell across her face.2000, Tamar Myers, chapter 27, in The Hand that Rocks the Ladle: a Pennsylvania Dutch mystery with recipes, Signet Books, page 223. From the entry bleached blond
  • These stereotypes of indigenous peoples implied obvious roles for the associated Europeans—heirs to the Dying, bleaching agents to the Whitening.1997, James Belich, “Myth, Race, and Identity in New Zealand”, in The New Zealand Journal of History, volume 31, number 1, Auckland…. From the entry archetype
  • Theories abounded as to the best configuration of this linkage--screen early, screen late; disperge early, disperge late; bleach early, bleach late.1997, Proceedings, International Recovered Paper VIII, page 76. From the entry disperge
  • Put the domestos in a bowl and dilute with the water. (Note the small amount of water keeps the bleach concentrated).1996 September 7, Lee-Jon Moore, “Bleached Jeans”, in alt.skinheads (Usenet), archived from the original on 20 Sep 2025. From the entry jeanies
  • The darkest areas (the points) may brindle or become bleached by brilliant sunlight, especially in chocolate and white points.1993, Peter Warner, Perfect Cats, page 78. From the entry brindle
  • I was the bleached academic—more white than the anglo professors.1982, Richard Rodriguez, “Profession”, in Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez, Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, →ISBN…. From the entry Queequeg
  • Systemic symptoms include headache, anorexia and sometimes nausea, vomiting, tinnitus and deafness, and deplumation or bleaching of the hair may occur.1979, Historia Ophthalmologica Internationalis - Volume 1, page 94. From the entry deplumation
  • She had long ago given up her old dream of having a bleach job and plastic surgery and dental work.1975, Linda Jacobs, Cher: Simply Cher (Women Behind the Bright Lights), EMC Corporation, page 31. From the entry bleach job
  • Disporting yourself on the sable plage getting your lallies all bronzed - your riah getting bleached by the soleil.1967, Kenneth Horne, Bona Bijou Tourettes (Round the Horne), season 3, episode 12. From the entry soleil

Meaning of bleach

  1. noun A chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening.
  2. noun A variety of bleach.
  3. verb To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair).

Full definition of bleach

Questions about bleach in a sentence

How do you use bleach in a sentence?
Bleach is used as a noun, verb and adjective. For example: “Once coral bleaching begins, corals tend to continue to bleach even if the stressor is removed.”
What is a short sentence with bleach?
“Stands of staghorn coral were bleaching white.”
What does bleach mean?
Bleach means a chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening.

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