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How to use cleanliness in a sentence

25 example sentences · noun

Cleanliness means the property of being cleanly, or habitually clean; good hygiene. Example: “Bathing once a month may save time, but from a cleanliness standpoint, it's not effective.”

Examples of cleanliness by meaning

nounThe property of being cleanly, or habitually clean; good hygiene.

  • Both engines and carriages were maintained in admirable cleanliness, and a very high standard of neatness characterised the permanent way and lineside buildings.1946 May and June, J. Alan Rannie, “The Midland of 35 Years Ago”, in Railway Magazine, page 137

More sentences with cleanliness

  • Bathing once a month may save time, but from a cleanliness standpoint, it's not effective.From the entry standpoint
  • Cleanliness is a virtue worth more than others.From the entry worth
  • I was impressed with the cleanliness of the hotel.From the entry impressed
  • Tooth-combed seven heads, had grand sport; mixed bag, measured one teaspoonful; cleanliness is next to godliness!2013, Judith Lissauer Cromwell, “Nursing”, in Florence Nightingale, Feminist, Jefferson, N.C.; London: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 234. From the entry toothcomb
  • Cleanliness and light are present: Art Deco streamlining replaces Edwardian overdecoration.2008 April 20, Bernard Holland, “Rocketing to Inner Space, Defying Tonality”, in New York Times. From the entry overdecoration
  • Are you an obsessive lover of routine, overconscientious, and think cleanliness is next to godliness?2001 March 15, James Meikle, “Fussing can double risk of heart attack”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News &…. From the entry overconscientious
  • " " Cleanliness is next to godliness!2024, Jason Kirk, Hell Is a World Without You. From the entry churchism
  • The meat diaper plays a crucial role in maintaining cleanliness when serving meat dishes such as steak, burgers and fried chicken.2023 July 11, Mohamed Dabo, “Understanding the functions of an absorbent pad in meat packaging”, in Packaging Gateway. From the entry meat diaper
  • Gesturing at the cleanliness of the design, Medill says, “Originally we had 'focals,'“—signs that call out special offers—“but they blocked eyeballs.”2007, David Weinberger, Everything Is Miscellaneous. From the entry focal
  • The eight desirable qualities are kindness, tolerance, forbearance, absence of envy, cleanliness, freedom from stress, welfare, unmiserliness and lack of desire.2005, Swāmī Hariharānanda Āraṇya, “A Comprehensive Interpretation of Sāṁkhya-kārikās”, in Sāṁkhya Across The Millenniums, Madhupur: Kāpil…. From the entry unmiserliness
  • New standards of cleanliness increased the workload for domestics.1992, Mary Romero, Maid in the U.S.A.. From the entry domestic
  • In general, the accepted method of determining surface cleanliness in the painting industry is to examine the surface for waterbreak.1980, Plating and Surface Finishing - Volume 67, Issues 1-6, page 21. From the entry waterbreak
  • But through its tiled passages there sails a shiply cleanliness.1942, Harold S. Ingham, Fire and water. From the entry shiply
  • They didn't know discipline, nor did they know cleanliness or tidyness, and you made them into what you yourself had become, rootless and restless.2010, Kleopatra Kristbjörg, Copy Cat World: The Book That Has Saved Many Lives, page 22. From the entry tidyness
  • Traditional gender manifests itself among postgender dual-career couples in a common, but not universal, tendency for wives to hold higher standards for household cleanliness.2002, Adie Nelson, Barrie Robinson, Gender in Canada, page 455. From the entry postgender
  • 'Purity' and 'pollution', the results of 'good' and 'bad' practice respectively, connote spiritual cleanliness and uncleanliness as well as literal 'cleanth' and filth.2001, Susannah Hagan, Taking Shape: A New Contract Between Architecture and Nature. From the entry cleanth
  • There is nothing materially similar to a ship in the construction of a Fire Station, but through its tiled passages a shiply cleanliness pervades.1953, William Sansom, Pleasures strange and simple. From the entry shiply
  • Like everything else in the way of cultivation, it is carried out to perfection, the utmost care and cleanliness being observed—four miles of rows.1914, Mrs. C[harles] W[illiam] Earle [i.e., Theresa Earle]; Ethel Case, “June”, in Pot-pourri Mixed by Two, London: Smith, Elder & Co.…. From the entry untaken advantage of
  • The Victorians didn't place the highest of priorities on cleanth, and Kingsley played no small part in proselytizing the cause of cleanliness as being part of the godliness business.1983, Max Harris, The Unknown Great Australian and Other Psychobiographical Portraits. From the entry cleanth
  • Marilyn Monroe who was blonde and beautiful and had a sweet little rinky-dink of a voice and all the cleanliness of all the clean American backyards.1973, Norman Mailer, Marilyn: A Biography, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, page 15; quoted in Sam B. Girgus, “The Changing Face…. From the entry rinky-dink
  • Even at the busiest periods, an air of quiet orderliness pervades the hall, and the first impression gained by the traveller is one of efficiency, neatness and cleanliness.1951 October, H. A. Vallance, “Across Denmark by Lyntog”, in Railway Magazine, page 658. From the entry air
  • Other major Canadian cities, while certainly not striving for Singaporesque OCD-style levels of urban cleanliness, are nevertheless pretty tidy places, where street trash is more the exception than the rule.2012 October 30, Derek Zeisman, “TRASH TALKIN' TIME, MONTRÉAL STYLE”, in Quid Novi, volume 34, number 5, page 8, column 2. From the entry Singaporesque
  • Slowly, the term reveals itself as an expression of fundamental tensions and deep structural antinomies: between the sacred and the profane, purity and impurity, morality and immorality, cleanliness and dirt.2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 2. From the entry antinomy
  • The municipality appointed a special streetkeeper to each of these districts, whose duty it was to see that destitute sick persons were conveyed to the hospitals and to enforce cleanliness.1908, Theal, George McCall, History of South Africa since September 1795, Sonnenschein, page 83. From the entry streetkeeper

Meaning of cleanliness

  1. noun The property of being cleanly, or habitually clean; good hygiene.
  2. noun Ritual purity.

Full definition of cleanliness

Questions about cleanliness in a sentence

How do you use cleanliness in a sentence?
Cleanliness is used as a noun. For example: “Bathing once a month may save time, but from a cleanliness standpoint, it's not effective.”
What is a short sentence with cleanliness?
“" " Cleanliness is next to godliness!”
What does cleanliness mean?
Cleanliness means the property of being cleanly, or habitually clean; good hygiene.

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