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How to use unclean in a sentence

12 example sentences · adjective

Unclean means dirty, soiled or foul. Example: “They were gnawing, like beasts, upon unclean food.”

Examples of unclean by meaning

adjectiveDirty, soiled or foul.

  • They were gnawing, like beasts, upon unclean food.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 194

More sentences with unclean

  • Any foot shape deviating from this model is conceived as a blemish, and the animal is unclean.1997, Jean Soler, “5: The Semiotics of Food in the Bible”, in Carole Counihan, Penny Van Esterik, editors, Food and Culture: A Reader…. From the entry blemish
  • The Venetian ghetto, according to Sennett, was to provide protection from the unclean bodies of the Jews and their sullying touch.2009, Barbara Engelking-Boni, Jacek Leociak, The Warsaw ghetto: a guide to the perished city, →ISBN, page 25. From the entry ghetto
  • She had thought in the past of autoforgetting with dread and fear, feeling something unclean and wretched about being a forgetty.1979, M.A. Foster, Gameplayers of Zan, page 27. From the entry forgetty
  • She hated the poisoned feeling in her throat, and no matter how often she gargled she felt unclean and disgusting.1915 October, Willa Sibert Cather, chapter V, in The Song of the Lark, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], →OCLC…. From the entry gargle
  • We can see in Isaiah 52:1 that the uncircumcised (Gentiles) were termed unclean by the same definition with which God termed swine to be unclean.2014, Cornie Banman, Traditional Anti-Torah Church Doctrines: The Curses of Our Fathers, →ISBN. From the entry uncircumcised
  • The distinction between clean and unclean beasts and birds was made, a distinction which has its principal significance in reference to a piacular offering.2013 November 25, W.G.T. Shedd, Dogmatic Theology, Ravenio Books. From the entry piacular
  • In pre-Christian times, it was believed that a vinok protected girls from the "nechysta syla" (the unclean, i.e., evil, spirit) and the evil eye.1999 August 1, Orysia Paszczak Tracz, “The Things We Do … Vinok, Vinochok”, in The Ukrainian Weekly, volume LXVII, number 31, Jersey City…. From the entry vinok
  • Our correspondent seems to hope that the unclean, playing Ping-Pong with the clean, will become unpleasantly conscious of his uncleanness and reform.1900, Daily Chronicle, published 1905, May 8, page 6/6. From the entry ping pong
  • The sea-donkey is allowed, but not the sea-ox; and you remember this by the following mark: the unclean (on earth?) is clean, while the clean is unclean.2023, Talmud. From the entry sea donkey
  • While young women loved the Beatles' hair, British adults found it “unsightly, unsafe, unruly, and unclean.” Factories suspended young apprentices who dared to show up in a moptop.2022, W. David Marx, “Introduction”, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN. From the entry moptop
  • Incidentally, such beings may be said to have an existence of a sort upon the lower astral plane; they are elementals created by man's evil desires and unclean thoughts.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 115. From the entry elemental

Meaning of unclean

  1. adjective Dirty, soiled or foul.
  2. adjective Not moral or chaste.
  3. adjective Ritually or ceremonially impure or unfit.

Full definition of unclean

Questions about unclean in a sentence

How do you use unclean in a sentence?
Unclean is used as an adjective. For example: “They were gnawing, like beasts, upon unclean food.”
What is a short sentence with unclean?
“They were gnawing, like beasts, upon unclean food.”
What does unclean mean?
Unclean means dirty, soiled or foul.

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