white-bread
Example Sentences
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But over the last few decades, it’s evolved in ways, both gritty and grand, that make it more megalopolis than white-bread suburb.
From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2022
By the end, we’ve mainly learned that Allen is the white-bread straight man to Rob’s enigmatic free spirit, which is not all that much by way of insights.
From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2021
The international menus available these days are far removed from my white-bread Midwestern youth.
From Washington Post • Nov. 12, 2018
Obviously, my rural, white-bread childhood during the ’50s wasn’t everybody’s ’50s.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 1, 2016
A little simple cerate should be spread on lint, and be applied every morning to the part affected, and a white-bread poultice, every night, until it is quite healed.
From Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children by Chavasse, Pye Henry