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Example sentences for: unclean
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Greeting the news of her granddaughter's first menses, she blurts, "Mazel tov !" and then slaps the child--a tradition evidently meant to celebrate the beginning of reproductive life, while reinforcing a girl's sense of shame over the fact that she's now "unclean."
Then came upper-caste converts from Hinduism, the “clean” castes of both merchants and artisans, and then the “unclean” occupations of scavengers.
In Papua New Guinea [PNG] women hiss and boo at other women who step across rows of food spread on the ground at the marketplace, for women are “unclean” and must take proper steps to insure the purity of the food being handled.
For Roger Ebert (the Chicago Sun-Times ), it's a "well-made thriller with a lot of good acting" but is "so unnecessarily graphic and gruesome that by the end I felt sort of unclean."
Boys at one of the high schools refused to eat the rice prepared for their meal: because one of them had seen some girls sitting on the bales of rice stacked in the school pantry, they considered the rice unclean and therefore inedible.