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Whitened in sentence

19 examples of Whitened in a sentence

No dawn whitened the dead sky.
The moon now whitened the whole of the glade, and cut into living waves the sea of heads, as far as the dimly visible copses in the distance between the great grey trunks.
Sometimes bending over the forecastle railings, sometimes leaning against the sternrail, I eagerly scoured that cotton-colored wake that whitened the ocean as far as the eye could see!
You would have thought it was some ruin enshrouded in a crust of whitened seashells, as if under a mantle of snow.
As he had been for a time accustomed to wear nightcaps, his handkerchief would not keep down over his ears, so that his hair in the morning was all tumbled pell-mell about his face and whitened with the feathers of the pillow, whose strings came untied during the night.
But the child began to cough in her cot or Bovary snored more loudly, and Emma did not fall asleep till morning, when the dawn whitened the windows, and when little Justin was already in the square taking down the shutters of the chemist's shop.
His hair was prematurely whitened, and his sunken, lowering eye avoided the bold, forward look of innocence.
Gradually the cool dim gray of the morning whitened, and as gradually sounds multiplied and life manifested itself.
'The day had broken when Gabriel Grub awoke, and found himself lying at full length on the flat gravestone in the churchyard, with the wicker bottle lying empty by his side, and his coat, spade, and lantern, all well whitened by the last night's frost, scattered on the ground.
The island then appeared in all its extent and under a new aspect, with the varied panorama of its shore from Claw Cape to Reptile End, the forests in which dark firs contrasted with the young foliage of other trees and overlooked the whole, and Mount Franklin whose lofty head was still whitened with snow.
The bones of his gallant army have whitened the sands of Palestine.
On the road whitened with frost, small birds had been fluttering around the hoofs of the trotting donkey.
The panes are always dusty and whitened by the double curtain behind.
Were she a slave, I would give Aulus for her one hundred maidens with feet whitened with lime as a sign that they were exhibited on sale for the first time.
He was a man nearing the evening of life, with a head whitened by hoar frost, but fresh, with an energetic face, a trifle too short, but still somewhat eagle-like.
"He whose head winters have whitened has bad enough of hoar frost.
The third day had dawned and the light whitened the walls, but he and John were sitting in the chamber, without hope or comfort.
Flour from torn bags whitened like snow the whole space from the granary to the arches of Drusus and Germanicus.
"What is the ancient custom?" asked Nero, with whitened lips.