Sentence examples for whitewash off from inspiring English sources

They took the whitewash off.

Workers did large tasks like shoring up walls and minute ones like scraping whitewash off the stucco with surgical scalpels, an enterprise that by itself took 15 years.

One day nearly 400 years later some of the whitewash fell off the walls and the people in the factory saw eyes and bits of face peeking out at them through the cracks.

It's not much, perhaps - the whitewash is coming off the walls, the red-baked ground is stoney and the persistently cheerful rhythms thumping from the bar round the corner look set to go on all night - but it's impossible to be lonely in her one-room house in a block of four, surrounded by friends and their children, and it's a short walk to work across the fields.

The rustic severe whitewash building is off-set by typical pale blue-hue shutters.

Jenkins retorted by saying that Jones's value to the squad may not be as easily discernible from the outside as it is from the inside, and the indications are that Wales are bunkering themselves in, as they did in 1989 when they faced the prospect of a then unprecedented Five Nations whitewash only to pull off a defiant victory over England in Cardiff.

Ostensibly a critique of an African photo journal by Leni Riefenstahl, it attempts to scrape off the whitewash the German filmmaker had succeeded in applying to her reputation after World War II.

Even Alun Wyn Jones and Martyn Williams had their moments on the final day, when the near-impossible was pulled off and the whitewash turned red.

Trump should repudiate Sirisena's efforts to whitewash past crimes and hold off on inviting him to the White House.

This was too much for E&Y, which responded by indicating it would not be able to sign off on such a whitewash report as accurate.

I spent a summer scraping off the whitewash and photographing [the murals].