come clean
Example Sentences
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Booth said England should have come clean much sooner about an incident involving white-ball captain Harry Brook on the tour of New Zealand that preceded the Ashes.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
We will come clean with our own views on these races: Whatever, man.
From Slate • Mar. 21, 2026
“I’d come clean with the voters about where we are fiscally.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2026
His decades of painstaking research helped lead to a push in the 1990s for the Air Force to come clean on what it had been doing: testing spy balloons and recovering crash dummies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2026
You’d think I’d’ve come clean and told Pa, but the way he was looking, I think it would’ve killed him to know his own big-mouth flesh and blood was the cause of all this grieving.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
