Example sentences for: white-washed

How can you use “white-washed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Along the way is Mértola, an ancient white-washed town founded by the Phoenicians, built up by the Romans, and later seized by the Moors.

  • The old section is a winsome town of cobbled streets winding between white-washed cottages, everything clean, neat, and treasured by both inhabitants and visitors alike.

  • Precedents to the horn book (pp. 59,76) are the approximately 300 sometimes waxed or white-washed wooden tablets preserving children's school exercises (3rd c. BCE-9th c. CE), many of the later ones likewise adorned by a cross.

  • The 13th-century castle walls appear woven right into the natural rock; the views from atop the ramparts, of both the white-washed town and surrounding area, are stunning.

  • Small, fashionable Positano spills down its hillside in a spectacular cascade of gleaming, bougainvillea-covered white-washed houses dotted with gardens of oranges and lemons and terraces of colorful hand-painted tiles.


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