Example Sentences

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She estimates that 80% of the women she has met have bleached their children, or plan to do so.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2025

One of the biggest news stories of 2072 is a report from marine biologists that over 90 percent of tropical coral reefs have bleached white.

From Slate • Feb. 15, 2022

“I have bleached it. I dyed it black. I tortured my hair. In ‘Hairspray,’ I’m in a wig.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 20, 2018

Without that cyclone, the whole reef would have bleached as severely as the northern part.

From Nature • Apr. 12, 2016

“Tell your uncle that the hour has come. That the mermaids have bleached hair.”

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr