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:

  • The narrow streets inside the town’s walls are enchanting, all lined with white-washed houses decorated with colorful flowers.

  • 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.

  • The fortress encloses a small, medieval village of white-washed houses where tourists still raise eyebrows.

  • Their low white-washed houses and cobbled streets were long ago enclosed by walls to keep the Spanish out — a purpose that failed in 1762, when a force of French and Spanish troops blew up the castle, leaving it a fairly uninspiring ruin.

  • The fine white-washed town of Arraiolos, 21 km (13 miles) north of Évora, is famed for its carpet workshops.


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