Sentence examples for to whitewash 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.
"They want to whitewash it," she says.
Netanyahu was willing to whitewash Hitler to smear Palestinians.
Attempts to whitewash Alexander's private conduct have proved abortive.
These, his critics complain, tend to whitewash the trawling industry.
"They'll be trying to whitewash us, won't they?
It suits his agenda to whitewash continuing Taliban crimes.
RIGHTS groups had called it an attempt to whitewash war crimes.
The idea that "now, we are all Americans" served to whitewash the actions of the rebels.
You recall: Tom had to whitewash a fence, but persuaded other boys to whitewash it for him, by charging them for the privilege.
In rebutting the arguments of Mr Judt and others, their aim is not to whitewash Israel.
I had heard rumors that base officials planned to whitewash the street art.
