come clean

Example Sentences

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We will come clean with our own views on these races: Whatever, man.

From Slate • Mar. 21, 2026

An altercation with a nightclub bouncer in Wellington, a wasteful Ashes performance and a foolish attempt to hide the truth, for which he later had to come clean.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

His decades of painstaking research helped lead to a push in the 1990s for the Air Force to come clean on what it had been doing: testing spy balloons and recovering crash dummies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2026

And, well, if I was going to write about others with Parkinson’s disease, I would have to come clean about myself.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2025

“Hey, Katie, I gotta come clean with you: I’m not really sick. I was just trying to get out of doing the project,” I blurted.

From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen