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
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
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)
