sully

Example Sentences

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Macron almost immediately responded on X: "Shame on those who wanted to sully his memory," he wrote.

From Barron's • Oct. 9, 2025

Introducing a two-tier system to the World Test Championship would be "greedy" and would "sully the game", says former England fast bowler Steven Finn.

From BBC • Jan. 7, 2025

It threatened to sully her white dress flecked with rainbows.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2024

Why would millennials, unable to own their own places, sully the site of our nostalgia by playing as landlords?

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2024

No cars had yet left their tracks to sully the road.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu