How to Use unwashed in a Sentence

unwashed

adjective

• The saint had sunk to the bottom, lost among his unwashed things.
  — Cynthia Ozick, Harper's Magazine, 10 Apr. 2023
• Then, use the same cup—unwashed—to measure the maple syrup for the frosting.
  — Bon Appétit, 14 Mar. 2022
• Don’t touch your eyes, nose and mouth with unwashed hands.
  — Garfield Hylton, orlandosentinel.com, 16 July 2021
• No one at this shindig ripped unwashed sheets off a bed and sauntered off to the White House.
  — Brenna Williams, CNN, 9 June 2017
• Do not touch your eyes, nose or mouth with unwashed hands.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2020
• Do not touch your eyes, nose, or mouth with unwashed hands.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 24 Nov. 2020
• Do not touch your face, eyes, nose, or mouth with unwashed hands.
  — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 22 Sep. 2023
• The unwashed dishes when the late Miss Jessie Comptom is neat as a pin?
  — William L. Hamilton, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2018
• In the rest of the world, eggs are sold unwashed and kept at room temperature.
  — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2021
• Her face, propped against the railing, was obscured by a stiff veil of unwashed fringe.
  — Jessi Jezewska Stevens, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
• Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth with unwashed hands.
  — Carolyn Y. Johnson, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2020
• Avoid touching your nose, mouth and eyes with unwashed hands.
  — Kerri Westenberg, chicagotribune.com, 16 Oct. 2019
• Avoid touching your eyes, mouth, and nose with unwashed hands.
  — Christina Van Waasbergen, The Arizona Republic, 25 May 2022
• Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed hands.
  — Stephanie Innes, azcentral, 7 Feb. 2020
• Sold for the second time, the special piece remains stained and unwashed.
  — Hanna Flanagan, PEOPLE.com, 28 Oct. 2019
• Who hasn’t left a dirty weekend wearing the unwashed T-shirt of the person you’ve been shacked up with?
  — New York Times, 10 May 2021
• The flu is spread through coughing, sneezing and unwashed hands.
  — oregonlive, 21 Sep. 2019
• Avoid touching your eyes, nose, or mouth with unwashed hands.
  — Jordan Culver, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2020
• Avoid touching your eyes, noses, or mouth with unwashed hands.
  — Jared Goffinet, Cincinnati.com, 19 Mar. 2020
• The washed sheet felt just as soft as the unwashed pillowcases.
  — Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 7 Aug. 2023
• To cut costs, builders often use unwashed sea sand to make concrete.
  — Vince Beiser, Wired, 2 July 2021
• Bell Peppers The pepper farmers at Baloian Farms say that the best way to store bell peppers is in the fridge, unwashed.
  — Audrey Bruno, SELF, 25 June 2018
• The stink of mothballs and unwashed bodies still hovered around them.
  — Brittany N. Williams, NOLA.com, 26 Oct. 2020
• At Second Ward, uniforms went unwashed for a week or longer.
  — charlotteobserver, 23 Feb. 2013
• Taking in the squalor, the stench of unwashed bodies, and the poor health and vacant eyes of the hundreds of children held there, the group members appeared stunned.
  — Ginger Thompson, ProPublica, 16 July 2019
• There is, of course, something else that is eating at them beside the unwashed dishes and their dead-end jobs.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 15 June 2017
• In Springsteen’s case, that sometimes meant letting his hair go unwashed for a bit.
  — Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 29 Nov. 2023
• Some, such as the virus that causes hand, foot and mouth disease, go from person to person via unwashed hands.
  — NBC News, 9 Aug. 2021
• The virus is passed through coughing and sneezing and touching objects with unwashed hands.
  — Laurel Andrews, Alaska Dispatch News, 23 Sep. 2017
• For an elite certain of its own virtue, and equally certain that the great unwashed has long since stopped respecting them, why bother with persuasion?
  — Peter Tonguette, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024