Sentence examples for be whitewashed from inspiring English sources
verb
To paint over with a lime and water mixture so as to brighten up a wall or fence.
- The houses looked very bright when they whitewashed the whole neighborhood.
... To my colleagues: Your cowardice to act cannot be whitewashed by thoughts and prayers.
The novel's central love story should never be whitewashed, but it spawned a cottage industry of softcore Victoriana that overshadowed its author's virtuosity.
Should India be whitewashed it would be the second consecutive away series they have lost 4-0, aftheythey lost the No1 Test ranking to England last summer.
The walls may be whitewashed, and the bathroom may be covered in gingham wallpaper, but there are two distinct aisles, and to get anywhere requires a cavalcade of apologies.
The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, run by the former New York gallery owner Jeffrey Deitch - a longtime champion of street art - late last week ordered a wall mural it had commissioned by Blu, an Italian graffiti artist, to be whitewashed because it found the artwork inappropriate.
At the lime-green wall, soon to be whitewashed, all the elements are there for poignant remembrances: a curtain scheduled to come down, forever; a creative genius who dies young, before his dreams come to life; a show about an exotic dancer who dies young and musically and slowly; and a doorway where the fans, more devoted than most, wait longer than usual, before and after each show.
Walls were whitewashed, floorboards were planed and polished.
Its interior walls are whitewashed, as if against infection.
Farmhouses were whitewashed; roofs were red tile or occasionally thatch.
"Black British history has been whitewashed," Olusoga reminds us.
Building exteriors generally were whitewashed, with little decoration, while interiors were ornate and comfortable.
