Example Sentences

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After you are in I will whitewash the whole cellar, and no one would then guess the wall had ever been disturbed.

From By Pike and Dyke: a Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

As a barbarian he was rather effective—but they will whitewash him and gild him and make a tame monstrosity of him.

From The Market-Place by Frederic, Harold

They will whitewash the Corso, they will make a restaurant of the Colosseum, and they will hoist the Italian flag on the cross of St. Peter's.

From Saracinesca by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

Not that that fact will whitewash me in your eyes; not that I wasn't working for myself, too, and not that I'm trying to make more excuses by explaining this.

From The Second Latchkey by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)