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
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
And, well, if I was going to write about others with Parkinson’s disease, I would have to come clean about myself.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2025
Philp told MPs the government needed to "come clean and tell the truth".
From BBC • Oct. 17, 2024
I hated myself for lying to my own grandmother, but I silently promised the virgen I would come clean soon.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
