Example sentences for: whitewash

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Colleagues had called Notra Trulock's allegations against Wen Ho Lee racist and had said there was not a "shred of evidence" against Lee . Trulock countered that only three of the 12 initial suspects in the case were of Chinese background and called a recent report exonerating the Clinton administration "a whitewash."

  • 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 ).

  • 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."


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