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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Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 27 July 2025
Tens of thousands of people have been sickened by the pollution, which also sullies the air when the water aerosolizes as sea spray.
—Joe Mathews, Mercury News, 16 May 2025
More than two decades after the brand was sullied by fraud and some of its top executives were sent to prison, Enron is ... back?
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2024
The Redflex name had been sullied after allegations that employees of the red-light camera vendor were partaking in bribery schemes allegedly taking place in 2012 across 13 states, including Illinois.
—Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 14 July 2025
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Verb
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
Tens of thousands of people have been sickened by the pollution, which also sullies the air when the water aerosolizes as sea spray.
—Joe Mathews, Mercury News, 16 May 2025
More than two decades after the brand was sullied by fraud and some of its top executives were sent to prison, Enron is ... back?
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2024
The Redflex name had been sullied after allegations that employees of the red-light camera vendor were partaking in bribery schemes allegedly taking place in 2012 across 13 states, including Illinois.
—Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 14 July 2025
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“Sully.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sully. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.
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