Examples of sully in a Sentence
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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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Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 11 Nov. 2025
The exhibition features his maps and sullied backpack, toothbrush, bar of soap, and survival goods, along with photos of him sleeping on park benches, crouching on the banks of the Hudson in front of ice floes, and haunting the city.
—Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2025
Manzur encourages that the water be sullied as part of their exhibition to the public.
—Mario Rodriguez, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
The problem isn’t Dearborn, or that people working on the secret project might have their creative process sullied by parking next to employees involved in the automaker’s current products.
—Mark Phelan, USA Today, 1 Oct. 2025
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The market for voluntary carbon offset and removal credits has been struggling for the last several years to repair a reputation sullied by numerous greenwashing scandals.
—Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 11 Nov. 2025
The exhibition features his maps and sullied backpack, toothbrush, bar of soap, and survival goods, along with photos of him sleeping on park benches, crouching on the banks of the Hudson in front of ice floes, and haunting the city.
—Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2025
Manzur encourages that the water be sullied as part of their exhibition to the public.
—Mario Rodriguez, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
The problem isn’t Dearborn, or that people working on the secret project might have their creative process sullied by parking next to employees involved in the automaker’s current products.
—Mark Phelan, USA Today, 1 Oct. 2025
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“Sully.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sully. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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