Example Sentences

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Liu was older, 7 inches taller, with bleached hair and piercings, practically unrecognizable from the wispy child she’d been at U.S. nationals in 2019.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Unless ocean temperatures return to more tolerable levels, bleached corals are unable to recover and eventually die of starvation.

From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026

The cover art is based on the famous Mick Hudson photo, taken at Glastonbury festival in 1995, of Robbie with bleached blonde hair and a missing tooth.

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2026

One pendant evokes the sea with its swirl of mother-of-pearl, spiral seashells and rivulets of pale gray leather arranged above a piece of bleached coral.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2025

The house must’ve been red and white, but the white was peeling and yellowed, and the red had been bleached to a Pepto-Bismol pink.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia