How to Use whiteness in a Sentence

whiteness

noun
  • The road down the mountain snaked through an icing of whiteness.
    — Jeff Gordinier, Esquire, 13 Feb. 2017
  • In a culture that prizes whiteness, progress is the real myth.
    — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2020
  • As for your mom’s side, as for your whiteness, there’s too much and not enough there to know what to do with.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2018
  • As a white woman, perhaps, her place is to be thinking about whiteness.
    — Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2023
  • That didn’t stop some drivers from pulling over to frolic in the foreign whiteness.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2021
  • Instantly the green grass, the brown earth, the book are buried under whiteness.
    — John Edgar Wideman, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2020
  • These pillagers still seem to think their whiteness and maleness should get them across the finish line first.
    — Star Tribune, 20 Jan. 2021
  • The church was clear in their belief that whiteness was purity and darkness was sin.
    — The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Mulan looked at Xiu and the cold, clammy whiteness of her sister’s cheeks.
    — David Canfield, EW.com, 24 Oct. 2019
  • The lagoon had iced over, the long shadows from the trees on the island stretching across the whiteness.
    — jsonline.com, 18 Dec. 2020
  • The question isn’t about self-flagellation, but about what is whiteness, and what has this done to me?
    — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 1 Mar. 2018
  • But is this a parody of whiteness or a parody of the critique?
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 14 July 2023
  • The Ayyars dipped into our lives like a tea bag into the whiteness of a porcelain cup.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026
  • What if the whiteness of my new teeth doesn’t match the rest of my face— freckled, uneven, and often makeup-free?
    — Lena Dunham, Vogue, 16 Apr. 2018
  • And even those pieces of pop culture took a backseat in the mainstream to programs that centered whiteness.
    — Melanie Curry, refinery29.com, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The girl’s whiteness, at once a color and a refusal of color, isn’t just a quality.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2018
  • Folks in East Compton were very protective of the whiteness of the area.
    — Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021
  • In the painting, her features are almost obscured by the starchy whiteness of her uniform.
    — Brienne Walsh, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
  • The gaze is brown, so the version of whiteness is [similar] to the way we've been looked at from a white gaze if that makes any sense.
    — Joshua Rivera, GQ, 22 May 2018
  • The mushy whiteness of a soft sandwich bread, as the dripping tomato sogs the edges, is auxiliary for some.
    — Eric Kim, New York Times, 19 July 2023
  • At the same time the model minority myth aligns Asians with whiteness.
    — Jeneé Osterheldt, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Vivian’s whiteness protects her from a lot of the fallout her rebellion; the same can’t be said for her friends.
    — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2021
  • What’s been the response to your critique of whiteness in WeHo?
    — Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2022
  • In one place, a single swollen mass of droplets showed a spectrum of gray, from near black at one end to the look at the other of worn whiteness.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 13 June 2023
  • This is not the first time LeBron has been at odds with whiteness in his 21-year career.
    — Essence, 2 July 2024
  • Even at a distance of fifty yards or so, the whiteness of his teeth was of a different order from the other players.
    — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2022
  • But honoring whiteness itself was deemed impolite, to say the least.
    — Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026
  • Spotting a Guston from across a room is, in a way, spotting the painter’s own variety of whiteness.
    — Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 24 May 2022
  • And then there is … light — the light, the overhead halo of blue, sometimes blanched into whiteness, sometimes edged with smog-sepia.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2022
  • The norm in America is whiteness, and this extends to hair salons, products, and styles.
    — Alicia Swiz, Chicago Reader, 20 Feb. 2018

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