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whitewash

How to use whitewash in a sentence

González was on the brink of unconsciousness when a rescue jet ski swooped in to save him from the swirling whitewash.

To quote Mrs. Kaye, 'A Liberal peer is as useful as a fifth wheel to a coach, and as ornamental as whitewash.'

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Historians, as a rule, are more given to the use of whitewash than a political investigating committee.

Dean Percy removed the whitewash from some of them, and they are now all restored to their original condition as far as possible.

A good deal of whitewash has flowed past the fence, but Tom Sawyer's trick still holds good.

I do not wish to eulogize, still less to whitewash, so great a man, but only to render simple justice to his memory and deeds.

He describes them as building a wall and then putting some untempered stuff, a whitewash, upon the wall.

And the whitewash, the enticing, beautiful words which are used to cover it over and make it appear as being secure!

In the other are Giotto's frescoes revealed from under the whitewash by which they were long covered, like those in the Bargello.

Yale secured one score in the fourth inning, while Harvard retired with her third whitewash.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985