How to Use whiteness in a Sentence

whiteness

noun

• There was a chill in the air, an eerie whiteness to the sky.
  — Talia Lavin, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2020
• The show is a critique of whiteness, not just white men.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2021
• The whiteness of the cold cream just really spooked me.
  — EW.com, 12 July 2024
• It’s also, of course, a sport known for its whiteness and wealth.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2021
• The lagoon had iced over, the long shadows from the trees on the island stretching across the whiteness.
  — jsonline.com, 18 Dec. 2020
• Folks in East Compton were very protective of the whiteness of the area.
  — Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021
• In a culture that prizes whiteness, progress is the real myth.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2020
• Instantly the green grass, the brown earth, the book are buried under whiteness.
  — John Edgar Wideman, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2020
• Gone too is the implicit whiteness of the maker, the viewer and the subject.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 24 July 2022
• This is not the first time LeBron has been at odds with whiteness in his 21-year career.
  — Essence, 2 July 2024
• What’s been the response to your critique of whiteness in WeHo?
  — Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2022
• That didn’t stop some drivers from pulling over to frolic in the foreign whiteness.
  — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2021
• In one place, a single swollen mass of droplets showed a spectrum of gray, from near black at one end to the look at the other of worn whiteness.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 13 June 2023
• Mulan looked at Xiu and the cold, clammy whiteness of her sister’s cheeks.
  — David Canfield, EW.com, 24 Oct. 2019
• Thangaraj said that even comparisons of Ohtani to Babe Ruth reflect a standard of whiteness in the sport.
  — NBC News, 14 July 2021
• These pillagers still seem to think their whiteness and maleness should get them across the finish line first.
  — Star Tribune, 20 Jan. 2021
• The mushy whiteness of a soft sandwich bread, as the dripping tomato sogs the edges, is auxiliary for some.
  — Eric Kim, New York Times, 19 July 2023
• The crew had been told that the cloud cover was at 400 feet, and peered into the whiteness, expecting to break through at any moment.
  — Ellen Barry Hilary Swift, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• In the whiteness, there suddenly appeared a dark shape.
  — Kate Dicamillo, Harper’s Magazine , 9 Nov. 2022
• The church was clear in their belief that whiteness was purity and darkness was sin.
  — The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• As a white woman, perhaps, her place is to be thinking about whiteness.
  — Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2023
• And even those pieces of pop culture took a backseat in the mainstream to programs that centered whiteness.
  — Melanie Curry, refinery29.com, 1 Feb. 2024
• Spotting a Guston from across a room is, in a way, spotting the painter’s own variety of whiteness.
  — Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 24 May 2022
• Vivian’s whiteness protects her from a lot of the fallout her rebellion; the same can’t be said for her friends.
  — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2021
• By 2005, though, the overbearing whiteness of the art world had driven him back to filmmaking.
  — Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
• At the same time the model minority myth aligns Asians with whiteness.
  — Jeneé Osterheldt, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Mar. 2021
• Even at a distance of fifty yards or so, the whiteness of his teeth was of a different order from the other players.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2022
• In the painting, her features are almost obscured by the starchy whiteness of her uniform.
  — Brienne Walsh, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
• But is this a parody of whiteness or a parody of the critique?
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 14 July 2023
• But Metzl cannot come up with concrete means of saving white people’s lives within the logic of whiteness.
  — Nell Irvin Painter, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024