whiteness

Example Sentences

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"Once you go inside the continent, there is nothing. It's just a big, vast expanse of whiteness and there is no life," Tordeur said.

From Barron's • Nov. 1, 2025

Their non-Jewishness, their non-otherness, their whiteness, their musical career, and their father’s birthplace—in a region that changed nationalities but ended up in Italy—enabled the family’s relatively smooth immigration process.

From Slate • Jan. 26, 2025

However, as a child, he was aware his whiteness set him apart.

From BBC • Aug. 17, 2024

As a white woman, perhaps, her place is to be thinking about whiteness.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2023

Directly in front of her was even more whiteness, a ring of it, and in the center a low shelf of land almost hidden in the glare of sunlight.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer