whites

/ waɪts /

plural noun

1. household linen or cotton goods, such as sheets

2. white or off-white clothing, such as that worn for playing cricket

3. an informal name for leucorrhoea

Example Sentences

But even aside from its profitability, many whites in the Antebellum South had come to see slaveholding not as a necessary evil, to be accepted apologetically, but as a positive moral good.

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Australia's oceans are teeming with sharks, with great whites topping the list of species that might fatally chomp a human.

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A 2020 Harris Poll found 72% prefer traditional architecture for federal buildings, with bipartisan majorities of blacks, Hispanics and whites preferring traditional styles.

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It may seem ludicrous to risk a fast bowler with the injury history of a crash-test dummy when his first attempt at cricket in whites for 15 months resulted in a trip to hospital.

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This narrowed the gap separating those with the highest graduation rates — Asians and whites — from other groups, including Latino students, Black students and those in foster care.

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