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
The international menus available these days are far removed from my white-bread Midwestern youth.
From Washington Post • Nov. 12, 2018
Obviously, my rural, white-bread childhood during the ’50s wasn’t everybody’s ’50s.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 1, 2016
To bake this bread, sift together one quart of this "whole-ground" rye flour and two quarts of white-bread flour.
From Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans" by Thomas, Edith