detergent

Example Sentences

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Lyondell is a world leader in polypropylene—think the cap on a bottle of detergent.

From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026

Everything became more expensive at the start of the year: meat, milk, salt, flour, potatoes, pasta, bananas, soap, toothpaste, socks, laundry detergent, and many medicines too.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026

P&G, for instance, began rolling out a stronger version of Tide detergent late last year.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 28, 2026

TerraSafe, a North Carolina-based startup that specializes in nonplastic food packaging, used it on a side project—creating laundry detergent sheets that dissolve fully in the wash without sacrificing cleaning power.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 24, 2026

And it looked better than that time I washed it in detergent to kink it up so I could have an Afro like my cousins.

From "Bronx Masquerade" by Nikki Grimes