come clean

Example Sentences

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An altercation with a nightclub bouncer in Wellington, a wasteful Ashes performance and a foolish attempt to hide the truth, for which he later had to come clean.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 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

She wasn’t the first to come clean like this.

From Slate • Jun. 7, 2025

Philp told MPs the government needed to "come clean and tell the truth".

From BBC • Oct. 17, 2024

Maybe I should just come clean, but then Jackson would take over and we’d end up back at camp.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins