Sentence examples for had been clean from inspiring English sources

I had been clean then for only four years.

Even if the hit had been clean, my assessment is it was more late than not.

"This made me wonder if everything had been clean," he said.

Halfway through dinner she told him that she had been clean and sober for four years.

Now in his fifties, he said he had been clean for more than two decades.

David suffered a brain hemorrhage, and Nic, who had been clean for 18 months, relapsed.

As far as she knew, Joseph had been clean for five months.

Formerly he had been clean-shaven and bespectacled; he grew a beard and long hair, got contacts and developed a limp.

Until then, he had been clean-shaven during his court appearances, and prosecutors have argued that Major Hasan, an American-born Muslim, grew a beard to prevent witnesses from identifying him at his trial.

(By Tuesday afternoon the coffee cups had been cleaned up).

I've been clean for two years.