detergent

Example Sentences

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Dow will make things that go into the detergent bottle.

From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026

Everything became more expensive at the start of the year: meat, milk, salt, flour, potatoes, pasta, bananas, soap, toothpaste, socks, laundry detergent, and many medicines too.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026

Better laundry detergent might help clothing last a little longer.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 28, 2026

TerraSafe, a North Carolina-based startup that specializes in nonplastic food packaging, used it on a side project—creating laundry detergent sheets that dissolve fully in the wash without sacrificing cleaning power.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 24, 2026

Then I put on coffee to boil and brought out my garbage-bucket laundry, which had been jouncing for two days, and rinsed the detergent out at the edge of the lake.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck