whiteness

Example Sentences

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"Once you go inside the continent, there is nothing. It's just a big, vast expanse of whiteness and there is no life," Tordeur said.

From Barron's • Nov. 1, 2025

"Their hearts must have sunk seeing this black flag against the whiteness of Antarctica," said David Waterhouse, curator of the polar museum at SPRI.

From BBC • Sep. 2, 2025

Their non-Jewishness, their non-otherness, their whiteness, their musical career, and their father’s birthplace—in a region that changed nationalities but ended up in Italy—enabled the family’s relatively smooth immigration process.

From Slate • Jan. 26, 2025

As a white woman, perhaps, her place is to be thinking about whiteness.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2023

She would have given anything for a dressing-gown, not just to keep her warm but to hide the whiteness of her nightie from watchful eyes in the garden below.

From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl