Sentence examples for whitewash on from inspiring English sources

He declared: "If there is a choice of headlines between 'payback time' on the one hand and 'Westminster whitewash' on the other, I would much rather have the former than the latter".

In an interview for BBC Radio 4's Week in Westminster on Saturday, he said: "If there is a choice of headlines between 'payback time' on the one hand and 'Westminster whitewash' on the other, I would much rather have the former than the latter".

But there is one more distasteful activity than a partial whitewash on torture and that is a total whitewash.

All he's doing is slapping whitewash on his platform.

A whitewash, on the other hand, could erode what faith remained.

Then something startling happened: He denounced the Olympics as a feel-good whitewash on China's repressive, market-hungry government.

There were precious few opportunities for either side to cross the whitewash, and on one of the rare occasions when space opened up for one of the wide men, Taku Ngwenya found Wilkinson's trademark defensive resolve firmly intact.

The tourists are top of the one-day rankings but had suffered 5-0 whitewashes on their last two visits to India and were comprehensively beaten in their two warm-up matches for this series.

After showing a marked improvement following back-to-back 5-0 whitewashes on Indian soil, Bell's innings was a fitting finale.

But there are many other aspects to the city, which is a bit like its churches — seemingly staid and whitewashed on the outside until you step inside to discover sumptuous interiors adorned with gleaming gold leaf and thousands of dazzling tiles.

Brick-faced in front, whitewashed on the side that faces the El and displays the mural of her son (a Florida security guard and Miami police officer wannabe who died in police custody on Dec. 22, 1994 after an altercation over an errant football toss that struck a parked cruiser), her home is the only bright spot -- and only home -- on a blighted block.