lily white
Example Sentences
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But if Jackson seemed like an awkward fit for a mostly rural, lily-white state, he nonetheless saw possibilities there.
From Salon • Feb. 23, 2026
It’s a beautiful, sometimes shocking NC-17 story, kept out of the lily-white, upper crust canon of literature — until now.
From Washington Post • Jul. 11, 2022
Margaret presides over a crumbling manor whose décor is dominated by portraits of lily-white colonialists from centuries past.
From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2020
Cole’s ascendance as a star is just one example of how romance—which accounts for 23 percent of the U.S. fiction market—has progressed past the lily-white days of yore.
From Slate • Sep. 25, 2020
Quickly those lily-white ankles became covered in mud.
From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge
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