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Whitewash in sentence

23 examples of Whitewash in a sentence

With the trust, with the access, with the love that only we can bring, we must unapologetically reclaim our beliefs in every moving image, in every cut of meat, because if we whitewash our stories for the sake of mass appeal, not only will we fail, but we will be trumped by those with more money and more resources to tell our stories.
But there is none of that, it deals with the last year or two of his life and tries, in a way, to whitewash him.
In a way, this is highly reminiscent of the whitewash given in THE PEOPLE VERSUS LARRY FLINT--where these men are elevated to hero status.
Throw in Dennis O'Keefe and the homogenization of one of the greatest comeback stories in sports is a complete whitewash.
I did not expect the novel verbatim but also did not expect an entire whitewash of the true drama in life.
The Real Che GuevaraPARIS – Hollywood history is often nonsensical, but filmmakers usually have the good sense not to whitewash killers and sadists.
Those who see in his patriotic rhetoric a desire to whitewash history miss his real concern: economic revival is meaningless if it does not secure Japan’s position as a leading Asian power.
Still, the CCP wants nothing more than to whitewash the scandal.
Indeed, adopting a hardline stance has enabled her to whitewash some inconvenient family history: Her father, the dictator Park Chung-hee, collaborated with the Japanese military while Korea was under colonial rule.
It is difficult to imagine that US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power, who has a fine record on human-rights protection, had her heart in lobbying to whitewash Israel.
Meanwhile, a commission that the government charged with investigating the state-condoned massacres of Muslim citizens in Gujarat in 2002 produced only a whitewash, absolving the perpetrators of any wrongdoing – and fueling a further rise in homegrown terrorism by deeply disaffected Indian Muslims.
Trump’s invocation of patriotism has no aim other than to whitewash his nationalist and nativist tendencies.
Not surprisingly, the senators’ questions were overwhelmingly gentle, and JPMorgan Chase’s broader lobbying strategy appears to be paying off; “investigations” of irresponsible and system-threatening mismanagement will likely end up as whitewash.
This type of whitewash is not limited to the Khashoggi case; it is even harder to find serious criticism in mainstream Arab media of the Saudi-led war in Yemen.
The European Parliament is reviewing limited aspects of it, but the report will be a whitewash.
Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush.
Tom said: "Say, Jim, I'll fetch the water if you'll whitewash some."
She say she spec' Mars Tom gwine to ax me to whitewash, an' so she tole me go 'long an' 'tend to my own business--she 'lowed _she'd_ 'tend to de whitewashin'."
Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?"
Presently he said: "Say, Tom, let _me_ whitewash a little."
There was no lack of material; boys happened along every little while; they came to jeer, but remained to whitewash.
He had had a nice, good, idle time all the while--plenty of company--and the fence had three coats of whitewash on it!
If he hadn't run out of whitewash he would have bankrupted every boy in the village.