Sample Sentences for
whitewash
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whitewash as in:  whitewash the fence

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    She whitewashed the brick wall to brighten the room without completely hiding its texture.
    whitewashed = painted with a see-through white
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    She even helped whitewash the school walls, holding up the lanterns so they could paint when the light went off in power cuts.  (source)
    whitewash = paint white
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    Jeremy's eyes were a whitewashed blue and they seemed to weep when he spoke.  (source)
    whitewashed = pale
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    They stood outside Frau Diller's, against the whitewashed wall.  (source)
    whitewashed = painted with a see-through white
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    Applying whitewash was lonely work—the old farmer had stopped appearing as soon as the last of the junk was out.  (source)
    whitewash = white paint
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    Dundee Village, where Wes's new home was located, was a collection of connected, whitewashed homes.  (source)
    whitewashed = painted with a see-through white
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    Without telling anyone, one night she painted her room carnation pink, first a whitewash and then two coats of the pink.  (source)
    whitewash = white paint
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    Whitewashed brick, black lacquer shutters, gaslight, and ivy.  (source)
    Whitewashed = painted with a see-through white
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    The Western Market was a great square of beaten earth surrounded by warrens of mud-baked brick, animal pens, whitewashed drinking halls.  (source)
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    The faint smell of manure was everywhere, but the walls were whitewashed and the dirt floor swept clean.  (source)
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    Then Roger noticed that, although the pond looked lovely, there was a faint but definite odor of putridity hanging around it ...and the small house on the rock in the center of the pond was whitewashed not with paint but with gullshit.  (source)
    whitewashed = covered with a see-through white
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    The plain whitewashed walls were rough and unadorned, and the only furniture was a prison cot, a night table with a candle in a bottle, an old wardrobe, and a washstand with its basin and bowl.  (source)
    whitewashed = painted with a see-through white
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    Two hundred yards farther on, they came to the Yambuku Mission Hospital, a complex of low, whitewashed buildings made of concrete, with corrugated tin roofs.  (source)
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whitewash as in:  investigative whitewash

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The government was accused of trying to whitewash the scandal by downplaying its severity.
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    She didn’t want to whitewash the truth, even if it made people uncomfortable.
    whitewash = hide
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    We once talked about where Jesus speaks to these hypocrites, telling them that even though they look clean on the outside, it's just whitewash—they're just bones and stuff on the inside.  (source)
    whitewash = covering up something bad
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    Her tone made it obvious that the whitewashing had accomplished nothing.†  (source)
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    He also swept the floors, whitewashed the walls and cleaned the bathrooms.†  (source)
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    The company room was being readied with fresh whitewash and new linen curtains.†  (source)
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    Tom went on whitewashing—paid no attention to the steamboat.†  (source)
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    In good society that always whitewashes a woman.†  (source)
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    The landlady's lively speech was received with greater favour at the Break of Day, than it would have elicited from certain amiable whitewashers of the class she so unreasonably objected to, nearer Great Britain.†  (source)
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    I look around at the pile of rough-cut wood, the wide whitewashed planks of the porch walls.†  (source)
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    Dr. Neu didn't try to whitewash what had happened.†  (source)
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    Old Fletcher, whose conceptions of holiday-making were severe, was visible through the jasmine about his window or through the open door (whichever way you chose to look), poised delicately on a plank supported on two chairs, and whitewashing the ceiling of his front room.†  (source)
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    The priest whitewashes them, the archdeacon scrapes them down; then the populace arrives and demolishes them.†  (source)
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    There was a whole, new, fascinating culture to this big whitewashed building.†  (source)
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