sugar soap

noun

1. an alkaline compound used for cleaning or stripping paint

Example Sentences

About 200 residents, many of them teenagers or children, trekked up a dirt path to a clearing and formed in two lines to receive their plastic bags of milk, sugar, soap, rice, beans and other rewards.

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He added toilet cleaner to the nurses’ tea and sugar soap to the sugar bowl but fortunately no one touched either.

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Maria Presinal was part of a group of four women from Holyrood who drew up a list of food and household items to buy: cereal, milk, sugar, soap, towels, toilet paper.

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The boy's family also received two cows, flour, onions, rice, salt, sugar, soap and oil, according to the Associated Press news agency.

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“Dear Judy, my pockets were stuffed with the necessaries of life—tea, sugar, soap, sometimes even bits of meat; they called it biltong, but it was really nothing more or less than dried meat.”

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