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

Emma is the first from her family to go to university and isn't about to come clean to her proud working class dad about why she's suddenly back.

From BBC • Sep. 20, 2025

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

From Slate • Jun. 7, 2025

You had your chance to come clean when Barrone interviewed you the day of the attack.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin