whitehead

Example Sentences

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In the winter of 1984, I began to get subsurface lumps on my back without even going through the blackhead or whitehead phase.

From The Guardian • Dec. 27, 2018

The patch uses it’s very adhesive hydrocolloid properties to pull the whitehead off your skin.

From Slate • Sep. 20, 2018

And though these cysts are sometimes unassuming—pink but no whitehead, usually not too raised—they are very painful.

From Slate • Mar. 10, 2018

"He come runnin' in like a whitehead, and as soon as I saw the paper and heard what Bub had to say, I thought maybe I'd better do somethin'."

From Tom Swift and His War Tank, or, Doing His Bit for Uncle Sam by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]

As for the other fellow, the one that stumbled an' fell, he picks himself up an' tuk out like a whitehead.

From The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border by Breckenridge, Gerald