whitewashed

Example Sentences

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The blunt imposing tower, in the rear, is in fact a chapel, a soaring whitewashed space illuminated by its own skylight.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

The 2021 champions were whitewashed 3-0 in Pakistan and are missing key players through injury, notably star pacemen Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood.

From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026

“It’s clear the administration wants a whitewashed story, if you’ll pardon the pun there. And that’s wrong.”

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026

Welshman Gerwyn Price whitewashed Alexis Toylo of the Philippines 6-0 and England's Stephen Bunting progressed to the next round with a 6-1 win over Japan's Tomoya Goto.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026

He’d assumed that the cussed army spirit which whitewashed rocks in the face of annihilation would prevail.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan