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 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

However, as a child, he was aware his whiteness set him apart.

From BBC • Aug. 17, 2024

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

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2023

He’d looked out the window where fields of white poppies stretched all the way to the shadowy hills.The whiteness hurt his eyes, and so he turned from them with relief to the cool darkness inside.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer