Examples of sully in a Sentence
Verb
people that sully our state parks with their trash
a once-gleaming marble interior sullied by decades of exposure to cigarette smoke
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Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 30 Aug. 2025
For the most part, this is about strained resources, not sullied reputations.
—Emma Whitford, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
That means the air on the Colorado Plateau — when not sullied by the ever-lengthening wildfire season — has become cleaner as the coal industry faded away.
—Jonathan Thompson, Denver Post, 5 Aug. 2025
Boeing had already been reeling from two deadly Max crashes in 2018 and 2019 that sullied the reputation of America's largest exporter.
—Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 27 July 2025
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Verb
The problem is, people were drinking a lot of bad ones, sullying their opinion of the drink.
—Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 30 Aug. 2025
For the most part, this is about strained resources, not sullied reputations.
—Emma Whitford, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
That means the air on the Colorado Plateau — when not sullied by the ever-lengthening wildfire season — has become cleaner as the coal industry faded away.
—Jonathan Thompson, Denver Post, 5 Aug. 2025
Boeing had already been reeling from two deadly Max crashes in 2018 and 2019 that sullied the reputation of America's largest exporter.
—Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 27 July 2025
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“Sully.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sully. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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