How to Use whiteness in a Sentence

whiteness

noun

• The show is a critique of whiteness, not just white men.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2021
• Gone too is the implicit whiteness of the maker, the viewer and the subject.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 24 July 2022
• What’s been the response to your critique of whiteness in WeHo?
  — Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2022
• 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
• Thangaraj said that even comparisons of Ohtani to Babe Ruth reflect a standard of whiteness in the sport.
  — NBC News, 14 July 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
• 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
• 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
• And then there is … light — the light, the overhead halo of blue, sometimes blanched into whiteness, sometimes edged with smog-sepia.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2022
• Blue, from the super-extreme Diana Vreeland navy blue to Yves Klein blue to a cloud where the whiteness is touched by a tiny, tiny amount of pigment.
  — Diana Budds, Curbed, 8 Aug. 2022
• And there are the games with color, the white fabrics that are never white, yet seem to blaze with the preternatural whiteness of sheets bleached and dried in the southern sun.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 15 June 2022
• That unknown, and the possibility that she was drawn to the doll’s whiteness, disturbed him.
  — Dorany Pinedastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2022
• In effect, it was hoped that the valuation of whiteness would be turned against itself.
  — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
• There is a false belief that an allegiance to whiteness will somehow shield and protect you from racial harm.
  — Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
• The little forest and the mountain huts are behind us now; ahead is an unbroken curve of whiteness against an inky blue sky.
  — Toby Skinner, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Dec. 2022
• The one group that was never allowed to cross the line into whiteness, African Americans, may not have as many options.
  — New York Times, 13 Aug. 2021
• Part of the story is Kevin is insulated from a lot of the worst things that happen on the plantation because of his whiteness.
  — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 17 Dec. 2022
• To drive through Inuvik at night is to navigate whiteness, guessing where the edge of the road drops off under layers of ice and snow.
  — New York Times, 21 Feb. 2022
• At every twist and turn of this tale, Stefani is gaslighting her way through each step, and stepping over Zola to wield her whiteness as a weapon.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 30 June 2021
• It’s almost like they are shocked by being able to see their own whiteness and straightness, by the way culture and gender are changing.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2022
• If whiteness is an illusion, on what else can a poor man without prospects pride himself?
  — Zadie Smith, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2022
• As time went on, these land grants became a way for the racially mixed colonizers to claim whiteness and the privileges that came with it.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2021
• The overwhelming whiteness of the trendy, fashion-forward world the show is supposed to represent.
  — Shamira Ibrahim, Allure, 16 Dec. 2021
• Of course, the whiteness of the series was glaringly obvious to any Black or Brown person in the audience.
  — Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024