white-bread
Example Sentences
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At first, Lewyn’s worldly sophistication seems to make a mockery of his new friend’s white-bread lifestyle and theatrical spirituality.
From Washington Post • May 31, 2022
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
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
But Bellizarius, the brave Generall, will flame high and cleare like a Beacon; but your Puritane Eugenius will burne blew, blew like a white-bread sop in Aqua Vitae.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)
