white-bread
Example Sentences
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The goal was to enable Disney to avoid the honky-tonk character of development around Disneyland in Anaheim, and instead keep the Florida property in perfectly coiffed white-bread comeliness.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2023
The colonel stifled Elvis’s desire to go for prestigious movies like “West Side Story” and pushed him to make white-bread girls-in-paradise pop musicals that got worse and worse.
From New York Times • May 21, 2022
Being a witch looked dangerous and cool, wholly removed from my white-bread Midwestern life.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 28, 2020
Gamse was with Ruiz in New York while he was watching “Shark Tank,” a reality show in which investors bet on or belittle a series of amateurs proposing mostly white-bread inventions.
From Washington Post • Mar. 6, 2015
Bathe the eye frequently with warm milk and water, and apply, every night at bedtime, a warm white-bread poultice.
From Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children by Chavasse, Pye Henry