How to Use sully in a Sentence

sully

verb

• The night was sullied for both sides by the injury to Hayward.
  — Joe Vardon, cleveland.com, 17 Oct. 2017
• So suck it up, let people sully your floors, and clean well the next day.
  — Liz Krieger, Good Housekeeping, 12 June 2019
• Is the word now — and words matter — is the word now sullied in that way, because that’s how people think of it?
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 24 Oct. 2018
• As the truth shifts under Jim’s feet, his view of the world is left forever sullied.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 23 Jan. 2024
• But the magnitude of the blunders this week ought to sully the airline’s image.
  — Sandy Bankscolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2022
• Anyway, what would be the point of selling people on a safe space just to sully it with dangers?
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 8 Nov. 2021
• Spain’s government has since warned that the bid to host one of the world’s biggest sporting events is at risk of being sullied.
  — Joseph Wilson, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Sep. 2023
• The high death toll in nursing homes also sullies Sweden’s record.
  — Peter Coy, Bloomberg.com, 16 May 2020
• Part of the appeal was that the old house hadn’t had its integrity sullied with too many additions over the centuries, which is the case for many homes in the area.
  — Tessa Watson, ELLE Decor, 22 Mar. 2023
• The newspaper need not have worried that the name of Charlottesville was sullied.
  — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 7 July 2018
• However, when those boys attempt to stick the piece of tape to their arms, parts of it fall off as it has been sullied and lost its ability to stick.
  — Christina Capatides, CBS News, 29 Apr. 2019
• But untrained dogs, like the one with digestive issues, have sullied too many flights.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Nov. 2019
• Another home run sullied his line, though this was not his doing.
  — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 24 Apr. 2018
• Thinking about how Toad is just the purest, cutest videogame character and how nothing could sully his image.
  — Karen Han, Vox, 18 Sep. 2018
• Major League Baseball should not have his name sullying its record book.
  — The Tylt, AL.com, 8 Aug. 2017
• There will be a glorious beach, fine food and wines in a setting that allows sullied chiefs to circulate among their peers and not skulk around.
  — John Schwartz, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2017
• Image None of it, though, has sullied that first memory for Alli.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 18 June 2018
• In China’s largest cities these days, one doesn’t sully one’s fingers with actual cash.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 5 June 2019
• Across the tracks, a drab white wall meets your gaze, its once pristine tiling scarred and smudged, its smooth upper surface sullied by rust stains from an overhanging pipe.
  — Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, 25 Oct. 2017
• The joyous occasion was sullied by a subsequent Chick-fil-A subtweet, which Popeyes was quick to respond to.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 20 Aug. 2019
• One of them complained in one exchange that the Ukrainian president was like Brad Pitt, a global star with an image that couldn’t be sullied.
  — Catherine Belton, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024
• The temple that honors our noblest president will be sullied by our basest.
  — Eugene Robinson, The Mercury News, 18 June 2019
• Chapman still golfed it into the Crawford Boxes, leaving his bat at 112 mph to sully a perfect game and forecast what lay ahead.
  — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 27 Apr. 2018
• Those 1984 Games essentially saved the Olympic movement after a decade of terror, red ink and a boycott sullied the brand and made hosting a burden.
  — Bloomberg.com, 13 Sep. 2017
• That caused an uproar among some in Wallowa County who feared the development would sully both the view and the culture of the community.
  — oregonlive, 22 Jan. 2020
• Cook also tried to distance Apple from the dark clouds that have sullied that techno-optimism in recent years.
  — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 13 May 2018
• Hogs rip habitats to shreds, sully clean streams, compete for food with native animals, and even eat turkey chicks.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 13 Jan. 2020
• The players who dominated during the home-run chase of 1998 have all since retired (their careers sullied, in many cases, by steroid use).
  — The Economist, 8 July 2019
• There wasn’t even need to sully our arrival by hovering in reception.
  — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 3 Jan. 2023
• His miss was an improbability—the kind of result that sullies good process.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 1 June 2018

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024