come clean

Example Sentences

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Booth said England should have come clean much sooner about an incident involving white-ball captain Harry Brook on the tour of New Zealand that preceded the Ashes.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026

"The prime minister's chief of staff is someone who has access to a lot of information," she said, urging the government to "come clean about what happened".

From BBC • Mar. 26, 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

I want to come clean and tell one weeping woman that it was all a hoax, a move in the game, but to present Peeta as a liar now would not help his image.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins