How to Use unwashed in a Sentence

unwashed

adjective
  • His clothes were torn, unwashed.
    — Ayşegül Savaş, New Yorker, 24 May 2026
  • Do not touch your face, eyes, nose, or mouth with unwashed hands.
    — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The saint had sunk to the bottom, lost among his unwashed things.
    — Cynthia Ozick, Harper's Magazine, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Avoid touching your nose, mouth and eyes with unwashed hands.
    — Kerri Westenberg, chicagotribune.com, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth with unwashed hands.
    — Carolyn Y. Johnson, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Avoid touching your eyes, nose, or mouth with unwashed hands.
    — Jordan Culver, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed hands.
    — Stephanie Innes, azcentral, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Avoid touching your eyes, mouth, and nose with unwashed hands.
    — Christina Van Waasbergen, The Arizona Republic, 25 May 2022
  • Avoid touching your eyes, noses, or mouth with unwashed hands.
    — Jared Goffinet, Cincinnati.com, 19 Mar. 2020
  • Avoid touching eyes, nose and mouth with unwashed hands.
    — Mark Prussin, CBS News, 27 Dec. 2025
  • Wash them just before using them but be sure to store them unwashed.
    — Cathy Thomas, Oc Register, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Raw prep shrimp stored on shelf over unwashed produce in walk in cooler.
    — Staff Reports, Florida Times-Union, 24 Mar. 2026
  • To cut costs, builders often use unwashed sea sand to make concrete.
    — Vince Beiser, Wired, 2 July 2021
  • In-stock items must be returned unused and unwashed.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The flu is spread through coughing, sneezing and unwashed hands.
    — oregonlive, 21 Sep. 2019
  • Then, use the same cup—unwashed—to measure the maple syrup for the frosting.
    — Bon Appétit, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Fill a glass, like a mason jar, with water and place your unwashed cilantro in it.
    — Stacey Lastoe, Southern Living, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Her face, propped against the railing, was obscured by a stiff veil of unwashed fringe.
    — Jessi Jezewska Stevens, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
  • Avoid finger food and using unwashed hands to put food into your mouth.
    — Popular Science, 20 Mar. 2020
  • In the rest of the world, eggs are sold unwashed and kept at room temperature.
    — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Sold for the second time, the special piece remains stained and unwashed.
    — Hanna Flanagan, PEOPLE.com, 28 Oct. 2019
  • The stink of mothballs and unwashed bodies still hovered around them.
    — Brittany N. Williams, NOLA.com, 26 Oct. 2020
  • No one at this shindig ripped unwashed sheets off a bed and sauntered off to the White House.
    — Brenna Williams, CNN, 9 June 2017
  • The virus is passed through coughing and sneezing and touching objects with unwashed hands.
    — Laurel Andrews, Alaska Dispatch News, 23 Sep. 2017
  • Items must be unworn and unwashed, and have the original tags attached.
    — Howard Cohen, miamiherald, 13 Dec. 2017
  • In Springsteen’s case, that sometimes meant letting his hair go unwashed for a bit.
    — Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Those with unwashed hands, which may contaminate surfaces, should be kept out of the kitchen.
    — USA Today, 20 Nov. 2020
  • The virus is passed through coughing, sneezing and touching objects with unwashed hands.
    — Laurel Andrews, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2018
  • There is, of course, something else that is eating at them beside the unwashed dishes and their dead-end jobs.
    — Michael O'Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 15 June 2017
  • Some, such as the virus that causes hand, foot and mouth disease, go from person to person via unwashed hands.
    — NBC News, 9 Aug. 2021

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