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• Sunday houses were often made of limestone rock coated with whitewash inside and out.From the entry Sunday house
• Going to a public school in a very white state, I was given a very whitewashed education."2021, Dave Zirin, The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World, The New Press, →ISBN, page 153. From the entry whitewashed
• There is also an omnipresent whitewash of rabbit fur across my carpets.2015 February 15, Alexander Fury, “Watership gown: A rabbit-related fashion loss”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media…. From the entry prelicked
• A woman worked a garden behind a neat whitewashed fence, a real Acacia Avenue kind of scene.2013 June 20, Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett, The Long War: (Long Earth 2), Random House, →ISBN, page 117. From the entry Acacia Avenue
• The company has built pretty little whitewashed renthouses with front porches and fenced-in yards.2008, Helen Lavinia Underwood, Under Cedar Shades. From the entry renthouse
• The idols and fetishes were being dressed up and whitewashed, receiving sacrifices.1958, Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King. From the entry fetish
• On the edge of a grassy field is a low, whitewashed house, with nothing to announce it as a Brotherhood branch.2023, Devika Rege, Quarterlife, Dialogue Books (2025), page 143. From the entry flagless
• Throughout the 2-minute trailer, I watched the passionate and diverse history of our movement be whitewashed and ciswashed.2015, Matt Comer, "'Stonewall' film attracts criticism", QNotes, Volume 30, Number 8, 14 August 2015 - 27 August 2015, page 17. From the entry ciswash
• Jo and her husband, Jeff, now have cabinets finished with a whitewashed oak and a center island topped with charcoal-and-rust-colored granite.1998 March, “Managing Money:Home”, in Kiplinger's Personal Finance, volume 52, number 3, page 64. From the entry whoop-de-do
• Parges might subsequently be whitewashed for a more refined appearance, or used later as the scratch coat for stucco.1991 July–August, Paul Briggs, “Mortars & finishes”, in The Old-House Journal, volume XIX, number 4, Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.: Old House…. From the entry parge
• But the village - with its trim, whitewashed houses and small yachting harbour - is quite distinct from the city.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 136. From the entry Cramond
• She led them along a path edged with round, whitewashed stones and equally rounded basils of a clamorous green.1970, Patrick White, chapter 6, in The Vivisector, New York: Avon, published 1980, page 376. From the entry clamorous
• He saw Dmitri half rise from his chair so that the shadow of his humpback shifted on the whitewashed wall.1948, Philip Gibbs, chapter 5, in Behind the Curtain, Toronto: The Ryerson Press. From the entry humpback
• Say, every time that little Jane daubed some whitewash on her little nosie, she gave that grandstand the squints.1921 November, Fannie Hurst, “The Vertical City”, in Cosmopolitan, volume LXXI, number 5, page 37, column 2. From the entry nosie
• They were not only whitewashed but bluewashed and pinkwashed, as Roy put it, giving a very gay appearance to the streets.1907, Mary Wright Plummer, Roy and Ray in Mexico, Henry Holt and Company, page 22. From the entry pinkwashed
• The transition for the three of us, goin' from a very mixed Chicago area to the very whitewashed Northwest, was kinda weird.2012, Stuart Hallerman, quoted in Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge, Crown, page 59. From the entry whitewashed
• It looked a house-boat despite its guard of whitewashed stones and luxuriant flowers, its wooden fretwork frontage almost wholly immersed in bougainvillaea.1981, Wole Soyinka, chapter I, in Aké: The Years of Childhood, New York: Vintage, published 1983, page 5. From the entry frontage
• The surface of the parget might be finished either smooth, with a coat of whitewash, or as rough-cast with sand or small stones.1952, L.F. Salzman, Building in England, page 191. From the entry parget
• Only at a blotch of sunlight did it hesitate, tentative as a leaf-flicker on the whitewashed plaster, then moment by long moment it seeped in darkeningly.1962, Rudy Wiebe, Peace Shall Destroy Many. From the entry darkeningly

Meaning of whitewash

1. noun A mixture of a powdered mineral substance (often slaked lime (containing calcium hydroxide), chalk (calcium carbonate), or both) and water which is used for painting surfaces such as fences and walls bright white.
2. noun A thing used to hide mistakes, or to create an appearance of honesty, propriety, etc.; also (often politics), an act of hiding mistakes or creating an appearance of honesty, propriety, etc.; especially, a campaign, investigation, etc., which intentionally hides or overlooks unfavourable facts.
3. noun An act of clearing a person's debts, especially through a declaration of bankruptcy by a court.

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How do you use whitewash in a sentence?

Whitewash is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The houses looked very bright after they had whitewashed the whole neighbourhood.”

What is a short sentence with whitewash?

“Australia whitewashed the West Indies 3–0.”

What does whitewash mean?

Whitewash means a mixture of a powdered mineral substance (often slaked lime (containing calcium hydroxide), chalk (calcium carbonate), or both) and water which is used for painting surfaces such as fences and walls bright white.