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Example sentences for: whitewash

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

One prominent critic called the story a "whitewash."
Haggard's son, Marty, is speaking out, the article explains, because "his famous father is working on a biographical feature film that Marty says will be an outrageous whitewash of the truth."
All but a few whitewash his Mafia ties, brawling, silly grudges, boozing, racism, womanizing, and the fact that "he not infrequently resembled a thug" (Frank Rich, the New York Times ).
There is an obsession with homosexuality: cat `passive homosexual,' hock `prisoner who is out to engage in homosexual practices,' honey b-m `passive homosexual,' whitewash someone's kidneys `commit pederasty on.
Lorenz's thesis was greeted with accusations about attempts to whitewash human atrocities, all the more so given the Nobel Prize winner's native tongue, which was German.