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 rest of Alte is the Algarve of picture postcards — white-washed houses along narrow streets, colorful windows, filigreed chimney pots, and red-tiled roofs.

  • 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.

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

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


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