bleached
Example Sentences
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Liu was older, 7 inches taller, with bleached hair and piercings, practically unrecognizable from the wispy child she’d been at U.S. nationals in 2019.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
Unless ocean temperatures return to more tolerable levels, bleached corals are unable to recover and eventually die of starvation.
From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026
Linda Harman, an independent councillor on Ashford Borough Council said the site "completely bleached the sky".
From BBC • Dec. 17, 2025
It was her first day back, and she had just walked through a sea of scorched Joshua trees rising from blackened earth, their dagger-like leaves bleached an unhealthy yellow.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2025
They pulled off the Thruway and onto a four-lane road lined with low buildings, hung over with stoplights, bleached white by the heat.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
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