Sentence examples for whiten from inspiring English sources

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whiten

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(To cause) to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch.

  • Age had whitened his hair.

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"I think [with] a day of sun today and a lot of rolling it might whiten up a bit.

He has powdered his face to "whiten up" for the Operation Black Vote campaign to warn Britain's ethnic minority communities that not voting will "take the colour out of Britain".

Further down was a jar of Milk of Magnesia, which I used to whiten my hair for the part of a middle-aged businessman (another of Rosemary's tricks).

The message was implicit yet blunt: the group promised to "cleanse" France; "whiten" it by throwing out dark-skinned immigrants.

Another would attempt to whiten clouds over the oceans by wafting tiny salt particles up into them.

Recently QD Vision, a firm based in Massachusetts that uses quantum dots to whiten the output of its LED lighting units, showed off a prototype quantum-dot display which it claims matched the efficiency and colour levels of an OLED screen.

In a country of pinmakers, to take Adam Smith's seminal example, someone must still cut, draw and straighten the wire; fashion and affix the head; then whiten and sheath the finished product, if any pins are to be made at all.In the second great unbundling, production is spliced and diced into separate fragments that can be spread around the globe.

A ruling that liberated non-dentists to whiten teeth would invite complaints against a host of other professional bodies.

Slavers in France would send their shirts to be washed in the streams of the Caribbean isle of St Domingue, now Haiti; the water there was said to whiten the linen better than any European stream.At one point the plantations of St Domingue provided two-thirds of France's overseas wealth.

Bones also harden and whiten, becoming porous in the yearling and extremely hard in the mature animal.

That natural soap not only helped thin the skins but also helped whiten them by dissolving all the ingrained grime and stains.

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