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:

  • Look hard and you can still see the narrow, outside staircases leading to white-washed towers, where fishermen’s wives, or perhaps smugglers, would look out for the incoming fleet.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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


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