How to Use whitewashing in a Sentence

whitewashing

noun

• Dillard coach Tyler Tate said the game was business as usual as the team followed the game plan en route to the 42-0 whitewashing.
  — Gary Curreri, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Nov. 2021
• All the evidence of racist sentiment in the Jan. 6 crowd should have been enough to preempt Carlson’s whitewashing of the event.
  — Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2021
• The last time the Patriots tossed a shutout was earlier this season in a 29-0 whitewashing of the Lions.
  — Christopher Price, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Nov. 2022
• All of this whitewashing strikes me as somewhat ridiculous.
  — Michelle Slatalla, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2022
• Greene is far from the first Republican to attempt a whitewashing of what happened that day.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 12 Apr. 2022
• That came in a 4-minute-6-second whitewashing of Groupama Team France, which was eliminated with one race to sail.
  — The Associated Press, New York Times, 3 June 2017
• Ending the whitewashing and begin, once and for all, to denormalize the double-speak.
  — Sachin H. Jain, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• Irvine starred in Stonewall, which was criticized for its whitewashing of the Stonewall riots, as Danny Winters.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 27 May 2021
• The movie has also been called out for its whitewashing, screenplay, and for trying to fit everything that happened in the first season of the series in a less than 2 hour film.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 1 July 2020
• The whitewashing that the facts often get didn’t happen in this situation.
  — Jason Johnson, The Root, 11 Oct. 2017
• To many, the comment reflected the broader whitewashing of the genre, and showed how Balvin had capitalized on that erasure to become a star.
  — Juan J. Arroyo, Rolling Stone, 29 Dec. 2022
• Jughead is outraged and wonders why no one knows this story and Toni is like, welcome to the whitewashing of history, Jones.
  — Jessica MacLeish, Teen Vogue, 25 Jan. 2018
• Critics called the interpretation a whitewashing of the role that Hungary’s government and civilians had in the crimes of the Holocaust.
  — Jackie Mansky, Smithsonian, 22 July 2017
• Critics called the interpretation a whitewashing of the role that Hungary’s government and civilians had in the crimes of the Holocaust.
  — Jackie Mansky, Smithsonian, 21 July 2017
• Here, cannibalism is a metaphor for the whitewashing of a neighborhood.
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
• This whitewashing is perhaps most acutely felt in public schools.
  — Jill Filipovic, CNN, 9 Aug. 2022
• As the communist grip on power began slipping in the late 1980s, those omissions were exposed as Red whitewashing.
  — David Filipov, Washington Post, 8 May 2017
• And that’s to say nothing of their aforementioned whitewashing of his abysmal foreign-policy record.
  — Isaac Schorr, National Review, 7 Oct. 2020
• Asked whether she was engaged in a whitewashing of the events of Jan. 6, Ms. Greene responded that others were whitewashing riots carried out by left-wing groups.
  — Luke Broadwater, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2023
• There is also a whitewashing attempt by the government of India.
  — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 22 Aug. 2019
• The whitewashing and denialism of the Jan. 6 insurrection started at One America News on that very same day.
  — Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2021
• Another type of whitewashing is when people of color are displaced in a story to put the focus on white characters, says Nishime.
  — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 1 June 2021
• Figure on a total whitewashing by the time the Heat return from their four-game trip for their consecutive games against the Wizards the days before and after Thanksgiving.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 15 Nov. 2022
• McCarthy's whitewashing of what happened on January 6, then, is a survival tactic for him.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 26 Apr. 2021
• In a year in which the N.F.L.’s bumbling relationship to race has been at its most visible, this whitewashing has a particularly acrid smell.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2018
• But survivors of martial law still dealing with the trauma of the past say a Marcos Jr presidency will mean the end of justice for victims; the whitewashing of history complete.
  — Veejay Villafranca For Cnn, CNN, 6 May 2022
• And the stories of two South Asian women, both of whom appear on Bon Appétit’s popular test kitchen videos, have opened a separate discussion about the whitewashing of ethnic cuisines.
  — NBC News, 11 June 2020
• Half Full, chronicling the whitewashing of the word plantation despite its obvious links to slavery.
  — Karla Alindahao, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021
• Not a darned thing, which is extra disappointing since the series restores the character’s racial background after the movie’s whitewashing.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 May 2022
• On the other side, there’s a certain amount of apprehension from the Muslim community about whether or not [Kamala] is going to be a stereotype or a whitewashing.
  — Laura Hudson, WIRED, 7 Jan. 2014

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024