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
To Corby’s credit, he ultimately opts to come clean in the name of accountability.
From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2025
Ma rushed into the room like she expected to see my leg had come clean off or something.
From "Worth" by A. LaFaye
