How to Use bleach in a Sentence

bleach

1 of 2 verb

• She bleached her hair blonde.
• The main thing to avoid is a full moon, which bleaches the night sky.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2024
• Her hair was bleached a white blonde and swept down past her hips.
  — Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 27 Mar. 2023
• Of course, coral reefs also bleach out and die and don’t come back.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
• Stewart's brows have been bleached for at least a month.
  — Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 29 May 2019
• My arms were bleached, my armpits lasered, and my nether regions Nair'd.
  — Iman Hariri-Kia, Allure, 3 Oct. 2023
• Lemon juice can bleach away stains from lipstick, wine, paint and more.
  — Laura Duerr, chicagotribune.com, 13 Mar. 2021
• Spider mites suck the juices from leaf cells, causing leaves to bleach out.
  — oregonlive, 13 Feb. 2022
• Shiny bleached oak flooring ups the glossy factor throughout the house.
  — Jenny Xie, Curbed, 25 June 2018
• Thickets of wild elkhorn and mounds of brain coral were bleached or already dead.
  — Catrin Einhorn Jason Gulley, New York Times, 31 July 2023
• Her brows and hair, which grazed her knees, were bleached a platinum blonde to finish off the look.
  — Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 12 May 2023
• She's even bleached her hair four times since then, and says her hair has remained healthy and strong.
  — Emily Rochotte, Women's Health, 11 July 2023
• But, some of them can’t be bleached, need to be on a gentler cycle, or need to be line-dried.
  — Moriah Mason, Southern Living, 18 Jan. 2024
• The first step is determining if your hair is healthy enough to bleach.
  — Lindy Segal, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Jan. 2023
• Don't cover up my tattoos and don't bleach or cut my hair.
  — Annie Blay, Allure, 27 Jan. 2023
• In one state, returning migrants were asked to squat on the road, and sprayed with a bleaching agent.
  — Sarita Santoshini, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Apr. 2020
• Cohen ends her life of Logue with a laundry list of lessons, some items bleached and clean, some still stained.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2019
• One way to prevent damage is to bleach just your roots instead of your whole head.
  — Dori Price, Good Housekeeping, 30 June 2020
• L'Oréal Paris notes, those with darker hair might need to bleach or lighten their hair first for the purple to show.
  — Lauren Rearick, Teen Vogue, 8 July 2019
• The Eighties palm tree, as desktop objet or wall art, is a mood: sun-bleached and flat.
  — Lisa Wells, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
• Paris Reid is a model and a student with Cher-like lengths of platinum blonde hair and bleached eyebrows.
  — Sarah Spellings and Diana Tsui, The Cut, 25 May 2018
• Meanwhile, her friends remind her to shower and try to persuade her not to bleach her hair.
  — People Staff, Peoplemag, 3 Feb. 2023
• Woods take their cue from driftwood—light, bleached and whitewashed.
  — Jennifer Cegielski, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Mar. 2023
• The result: Somehow, using Proactiv on my face led to all of Beth’s clothes getting bleached in the wash.
  — Danielle Kraese, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2019
• The flat expanse of tall grasses bleached by the sun and the dry winter season was sectioned off by high chain-link fences and barbed wire.
  — Jason Florio, Smithsonian, 22 May 2018
• During some songs, the colors were bleached out, making the footage one-hued to underscore the drama.
  — Robert Levine, Billboard, 30 May 2023
• All flours will bleach (i.e. lighten) over time with exposure to air.
  — Carmen Collins, Country Living, 19 Apr. 2022
• Plus, oxygen bleach won’t bleach the color out of your clothing.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2019
• Its losses are already there and often mourned—on drab landscapes where the glaciers have died and on reefs bleached of their coral colours.
  — The Economist, 19 Sep. 2019
• Pugh's hair was freshly bleached and styled into a cute pixie.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 29 July 2023

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bleach

2 of 2 noun

• The moment to wash out the bleach comes quickly, and time is of the essence here.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2022
• Her hair was short and bleach blond, her lips dark red.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 27 Mar. 2024
• The prison staff didn’t give him bleach or anything to clean it up.
  — Richard A. Webster, ProPublica, 8 Sep. 2023
• While the bleach absorbs, go over the laces with a wet toothbrush, which will loosen the dirt.
  — Jessica Cherner, House Beautiful, 25 Apr. 2023
• Then, apply bleach one inch away from the scalp, and work down the hair section.
  — Lindy Segal, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Jan. 2023
• At the 2016 event, Alwyn’s hair was buzzed short, while Swift was in her bleach-blonde era.
  — Annabel Gutterman, Time, 21 Oct. 2022
• Keep your bleach in good shape by storing it in a cool, dry place.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Jan. 2023
• Start the cycle up again and add another rinse cycle at the end to get all of the bleach out.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 1 Sep. 2023
• To get rid of them, wipe down your pumpkins, preferably with a bleach wipe or two.
  — Matt Kasson, CBS News, 10 Oct. 2022
• Mold, mildew, and graying don't stand a chance on white towels against the power of bleach.
  — Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Sep. 2023
• Soak the feeder in a solution of one part bleach and nine parts water.
  — Katie Wiseman, The Courier-Journal, 19 Mar. 2024
• Rocking Balvin’s bleach blond buzz cut, the figure pays tribute to the singer’s Met Gala debut.
  — Griselda Flores, Billboard, 22 Mar. 2024
• That's because bleach passes down the drain too quickly to do a thorough job.
  — Lauren Piro, Good Housekeeping, 30 June 2023
• If the stains remain after a few hours, make a stronger bleach solution and repeat the process.
  — Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Oct. 2022
• If this doesn't do the trick, mix a solution of 3/4 cup bleach and 1 gallon water.
  — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Jan. 2024
• The quarterback with the black cutoff T-shirt and bleach-blond hair is leading a huddle.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Oct. 2022
• Plus, the cushions are mold, mildew, and stain resistant, and even cleanable with bleach.
  — Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Oct. 2023
• Nguyen then used bleach to clean the van, prosecutors said.
  — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2023
• Chlorine bleach is cheap but spatters can burn your eyes and skin and ruin your clothes.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
• The drops at the back of the stage and the wings are bleach white and seemingly lit from all directions, and, unusually, the floor is white, too.
  — Jennifer Homans, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
• Add one capful of bleach to a liter of water and force it through the filter in the usual direction of flow.
  — Alisha McDarris, Popular Science, 2 Jan. 2023
• But bleach can strip color and damage sealer if the concrete is stained or sealed.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2022
• Oxygen laundry boosters are a type of bleach that’s safe to use on colors.
  — Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 24 July 2023
• He could be seen in the picture applying bleach to her then-brunette tresses.
  — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 21 Oct. 2023
• To remove mold, many people assume bleach is the best option.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
• Use non-chlorine bleach when needed, and then tumble dry it.
  — Andrea Wurzburger, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Mar. 2024
• Billie Eilish is wearing a cardigan and has a bleach blonde blowout.
  — Seventeen.com Editors, Seventeen, 28 Nov. 2022
• Don't use bleach or wring out the fabric, since that can stretch it out, decreasing the weave density.
  — Rena Behar, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2023
• Furniture and other items had been burned in the backyard and the inside of the house had been sprayed with bleach, officials added.
  — Caroline Silva, ajc, 1 Sep. 2023
• Hotel workers poured a hot-water mix of vinegar, bleach, and dish soap.
  — Eduardo Medina, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024