white-bread
Example Sentences
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But over the last few decades, it’s evolved in ways, both gritty and grand, that make it more megalopolis than white-bread suburb.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2022
The colonel stifled Elvis’s desire to go for prestigious movies like “West Side Story” and pushed him to make white-bread girls-in-paradise pop musicals that got worse and worse.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2022
I remember that flight as though it happened last week — the noise of the plane, the uniformed soldiers, the white-bread sandwiches they gave us though no one was very hungry.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2019
Obviously, my rural, white-bread childhood during the ’50s wasn’t everybody’s ’50s.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 1, 2016
Bathe the eye frequently with warm milk and water, and apply, every night at bedtime, a warm white-bread poultice.
From Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children by Chavasse, Pye Henry
