Sentence example with the word 'whitening'

whitening

achromatization, blanching, bleaching, decoloration, decolorizing, etiolation, frosting, lightening, market bleach, pipe clay, whitewash, whiting

Definition n. changing to a lighter color

Last update: September 19, 2015


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In working amber, it is turned on the lathe and polished with whitening and water or with rotten stone and oil, the final lustre being given by friction with flannel.   [Please select]

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The snow continued to fall in great, heavy flakes, and the ground was whitening fast.   [Please select]

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The snow fell so fast that the trampled and discoloured road was again whitening beneath it.   [Please select]

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The dust rose in clouds, whitening the elder, the stickweed, and the blackberry bushes.   [Please select]

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There was a silence; then, "But Jacqueline," she whispered, with whitening lips.   [Please select]

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The January sunshine streamed palely in, whitening the deal floor and striking against a great land map on the wall.   [Please select]

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Among the whitening ashes on her hearth only a single coal remained alive.   [Please select]

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She glanced leisurely at Sylvia and touched the ash-tray with the whitening end of her cigarette.   [Please select]

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The humor kindled in the little man's brown eyes, and his fingers played with his whitening red beard.   [Please select]

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With whitening cheeks, but with defiantly tender arms that held her close, he demanded an explanation.   [Please select]

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On the heap of leaves sat the remnant of a man, a crooked skeleton in dirty rags, his face a parchment of wrinkles framed by a mass of whitening hair.   [Please select]

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