How to Use bathwater in a Sentence

bathwater

noun
  • Adding sea moss to your bathwater can help to improve your skin health.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
  • We were thrown out like baby with the bathwater.
    — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026
  • Stay with what has been proven good for you and don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
    — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 5 July 2020
  • And even though the color of the bathwater will change, none of these bath bombs will stain their tub.
    — Moriah Mason, Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Do not try to throw out the baby with the bathwater, you are forewarned.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 June 2022
  • But there's no reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater here.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2010
  • Good common sense says to not toss the baby out with the bathwater (an old adage).
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Colored salts can give your bathwater a tint, too, which some bathers enjoy.
    — Jennifer Blair, chicagotribune.com, 20 Feb. 2021
  • And that could be [throwing out the] baby with the bathwater.
    — Katherine Dunn, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2020
  • There's nothing like the warm embrace of bathwater when you're all stuffed up.
    — Nathalie Kirby, House Beautiful, 2 Apr. 2020
  • There is a great danger here of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
    — Jennifer Johns, Quartz, 24 Dec. 2019
  • The burns were so severe the women could see skin floating in the bathwater at the time.
    — Tristan Balagtas, Peoplemag, 11 May 2023
  • The bathroom tends to be cold, with overly bright lights, tepid bathwater, and no grab bars around the tub.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 7 June 2024
  • One mother and daughter share the same bathwater and spoon each other in bed.
    — Tracy Swartz, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2019
  • The old theory of don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater.
    — David Moore, Dallas News, 17 Jan. 2020
  • Too many investors are throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
    — Colin Darretta, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
  • There’s no reason to throw the proverbial baby out with the bathwater.
    — Patricia Levesque, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Refusing to set goals at all is a bit like throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
    — Mikaela Kiner, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Elordi and Jade are still very much a thing, thank you very much, and that bathwater belongs to her.
    — Vulture, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Not reason for panic, or to throw the baby out with the bathwater on the season.
    — Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star, 1 Feb. 2020
  • Harvard has thrown the proverbial baby out with the bathwater.
    — Erin Hawley, National Review, 19 Aug. 2019
  • This observation needn’t sound like a call to toss the baby out with the bathwater.
    — Lisa Kennedy, The Denver Post, 18 July 2024
  • That drum was among the toys that got dumped into my children’s bathwater multiple times a week.
    — Jenny Marder, The Seattle Times, 12 Feb. 2019
  • Educators do not want to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
    — Joel Mathis, TheWeek, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Otherwise, run the bathwater until too hot to touch.
    — Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 14 Sep. 2025
  • In the bathroom, a teenage son—made of garibaldi cookies—bathed in chocolate cake bathwater.
    — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
  • So the question for investors is to ask how to avoid this industry but not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
    — Steve Butler, The Mercury News, 15 June 2017
  • There's a real risk that in the resulting backlash, the baby will get thrown out with the bathwater.
    — Megan McArdle, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2017
  • The truth, however, is the industry isn’t about to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Like Belle Delphine, who got so much hate online for selling her bathwater.
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2022

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