How to Use soap in a Sentence
- Make sure you use soap and water to wash your hands.
- Her first acting job was on a soap.
- The store sells many different brands of liquid soaps.
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Wash away all soap with the hose.
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Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Miami Herald,
4 Apr. 2026
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Wipe away the soap when you're done.
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Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
1 Feb. 2026
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But that doesn't mean to skip the soap.
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Sara Moniuszko,
USA Today,
1 Feb. 2026
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First, make sure to pack the right soap.
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Stacey Leasca,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Feb. 2026
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Use a small tray for dish and hand soap.
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Abby Wolner,
Better Homes & Gardens,
7 Jan. 2026
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The soap will make their wings too heavy to fly.
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Emma Ashe,
Southern Living,
24 Oct. 2025
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The soap will make their wings too heavy to fly.
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Emma Ashe,
Southern Living,
30 Jan. 2026
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They were stripped of their clothes and scrubbed with lye soap.
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Dana Hedgpeth,
Anchorage Daily News,
8 Aug. 2023
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Scrub with a soft brush, wash with dish soap, and rinse.
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Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
20 Feb. 2026
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Add in a few drops of dish soap to help coat the ice.
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Marina Johnson,
Louisville Courier Journal,
28 Jan. 2026
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Add a few drops of a mild dish soap to the same cloth.
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Caroline Lubinsky,
Martha Stewart,
15 Mar. 2026
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Let the water and soap do the work.
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Daley Quinn,
Southern Living,
13 June 2026
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Switch to liquid soap or body wash.
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Louise Parks,
Martha Stewart,
17 Feb. 2026
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Wash your hands with soap and water.
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The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Oct. 2025
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Dish soap also has a very strong smell.
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Ashlyn Needham,
Southern Living,
18 Jan. 2026
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Dish soap also has a very strong smell.
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Ashlyn Needham,
Southern Living,
29 Apr. 2026
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No soap at the kitchen handwash sink.
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David J. Neal
may 8,
Miami Herald,
8 May 2026
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The best soap dishes can help with that.
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Audrey Lee,
Architectural Digest,
20 Feb. 2026
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Use just enough soap to clean a surface.
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Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
18 Jan. 2026
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Pour a small amount of soap into the pan.
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Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
12 May 2026
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Pour a small amount of soap into the pan.
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Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
5 Nov. 2025
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Then, add a single drop of dish soap.
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Mary Cornetta,
Better Homes & Gardens,
19 Sep. 2025
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Don’t force guests to cleanse their faces with body wash or hand soap!
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Abbey Hudetz,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Jan. 2026
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For a boost, mix in a little dish soap.
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Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
18 June 2026
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Wash the items with hot water and dish soap.
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Mary Marlowe Leverette,
The Spruce,
25 Apr. 2026
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Clean the counter first with soap and water.
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Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
26 June 2026
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Nothing about soap scum feels clean.
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Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
20 Jan. 2026
- He soaped and rinsed the car.
- I soap my hair first when I take a shower.
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Trust us—you’ve never been scrubbed and soaped up so clean in your life.
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Kaitlyn McInnis,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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But all that soaping up, as well as dry air, can lead to ultra-dry skin.
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Jessica Kasparian,
USA TODAY,
4 Mar. 2020
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Bush soaped down her new stepchildren and outfitted them with her own kids’ clothes.
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Gillian Brockell,
Washington Post,
12 May 2018
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Justin Jones was soaping his 309-pound body when his phone rang.
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Dan Woike,
latimes.com,
29 Apr. 2018
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Some chose to soap up the bottoms of their tube, while others extended their arms and legs in hopes of being aerodynamic.
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Amber Love Bond,
Forbes,
5 July 2021
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Fill a large bucket or basin up with water, then use a cup to pour the water over your head once or twice to get wet and soap up, and another scoop or two to rinse off.
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Kaelyn Lynch,
Outside Online,
25 Apr. 2021
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While not as effective as soap, hand sanitizer provides quick and easy cleaning should soap and water not be readily available.
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Sarah Midkiff,
refinery29.com,
18 Mar. 2020
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At Halloween, kids soaped her windows and littered her porch with corn (a prank popular among rural Midwestern youths).
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Tony Rehagen,
BostonGlobe.com,
16 Aug. 2019
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This high-efficiency appliance has a unique two-stage detergent dispenser that releases soap in two different stages for more efficient cleaning power.
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Camryn Rabideau,
Popular Mechanics,
25 Jan. 2023
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When each shift of migrants had finished eating—a good meal of frijoles and some kind of stew, with salsa and hot fresh tortillas on the side—the volunteers soaped dishes in a plastic tub, while the next batch waited outside on the sidewalk.
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Colin Barrett,
Harper's magazine,
5 July 2019
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All very innocent — moving lawn furniture a block down the street, soaping windows, leaving stink bombs on porches (homemade, nonchemical, nonexplosive types) and moving outhouses.
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John Kelly,
Washington Post,
30 Oct. 2019
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Kids strung ropes across sidewalks to trip people in the dark, tied the doorknobs of opposing apartments together, mowed down shrubs, upset swill barrels, rattled or soaped windows, and, once, filled the streets of Catalina Island with boats.
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Lesley Bannatyne,
Smithsonian,
27 Oct. 2017
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The Labigo Cordless Spin Scrubber makes cleaning easy, according to shoppers, eliminating the need to hunch over the bathtub and tirelessly tend to soap scum and hard water stains.
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Clara McMahon,
Peoplemag,
12 Feb. 2023
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The original idea had also been bolstered by Ochoa’s own pre-filmmaking experience as a journalist wondering what went on behind the frosted glass and soaped up windows of north London’s secretive-looking Greek and Turkish social clubs.
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Alex Ritman,
The Hollywood Reporter,
23 Apr. 2020
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