detergent

Example Sentences

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Dow will make things that go into the detergent bottle.

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

In those hours, Ma and us girls wash our clothes in a nearby stream, but without detergent they are not very clean.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung