Sentence examples for were 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.
Walls were whitewashed, floorboards were planed and polished.
Farmhouses were whitewashed; roofs were red tile or occasionally thatch.
Building exteriors generally were whitewashed, with little decoration, while interiors were ornate and comfortable.
Rahul Dravid finished with a single fifty in his final eight innings, as India were whitewashed 4-0 in Australia.
The walls in the basement of a building in Brooklyn's Chinatown were whitewashed, and boxes of cleaning supplies were stacked on the red tile floor.
His team were whitewashed 5-0 in the Ashes series of 2006-7 in Australia, and he was relegated to vice-captain.
Its interior walls are whitewashed, as if against infection.
"Black British history has been whitewashed," Olusoga reminds us.
Most of the floors are slate, and many of the walls are whitewashed pine.
(City furniture is walnut, Weekend is whitewashed and Destination is teak).
Rooms are whitewashed with beamed ceilings and dark plank floors; beds are covered with toile spreads.
