whitish
Example Sentences
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“There are some of the water marks,” he said, pointing to a line of whitish minerals coating the dark volcanic boulders, where water had once lapped.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2025
He groans in pain, his eyes shut and face covered in whitish spots left behind by the healing sores.
From BBC • Nov. 22, 2024
It may begin with loss of sensation on whitish patches of skin or reddened skin.
From Salon • Mar. 21, 2024
Whereas coralline algae form thin, hard crusts that are pink or whitish, peyssonnelid algae make thicker, brown or dark red crusts that are often a little squishy above a hard base.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 6, 2023
It was studded with brown oblong shapes—petrified tree logs—and whitish fragments—pieces of petrified bone.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
