Detergent

"Detergent" in a Sentence (15 examples)

I got a rash on my hands from dishwasher detergent.

He swallowed detergent by mistake.

He drank detergent by mistake.

Tom asked Mary to buy a box of laundry detergent.

He drank detergent by accident.

Dan smelled the clothes and found they had a distinct smell of detergent.

This detergent works like magic.

Which detergent is best suited for this?

Detergent is poisonous.

Tom was hospitalized after eating a laundry detergent pod.

Near-synonym: cleaner (sometimes coordinate)

laundry detergent

liquid detergent

powdered detergent

She used a mild detergent to wash the clothes.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.