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
Obviously, my rural, white-bread childhood during the ’50s wasn’t everybody’s ’50s.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 1, 2016
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
She had managed to get some flour smuggled into Paris from her husband's estate, and had white-bread made of it secretly, at the pastry-cook's.
From Queen Hortense A Life Picture of the Napoleonic Era by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)
