The Avonlea school was a whitewashed building, low in the eaves and wide in the windows, furnished inside with comfortable substantial old-fashioned desks that opened and shut, and were carved all over their lids with the initials and hieroglyphics of three generations of school children.

The US judicial system and press are incredible: One day you're a poor examplary housewife, victim of a rape, the next, you're an illegal immigrant, having committed perjury and being suspected of whitewashing drug money.

Ferhat Mehenni's separatist activists do the impossible to whitewash their leader.

The politician tried to whitewash the poor job he did dealing with the coronavirus.

With dramatic suddenness he struck a match, and by its light exposed a stain of blood upon the whitewashed wall.