white out
Example Sentences
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Moving slowly and dinging our bells to prevent collisions, the spectral silhouette of the temple appeared like Brigadoon, and we sought refuge next to an ethereal flautist to wait out the white out.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2023
Heine and his friend sculptor John Buckley built the great white out of fiberglass, then installed it on Aug. 9, the 41st anniversary of the day the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 25, 2022
STS causes the part of your brain that sympathizes with the misfortunes of others, if overexposed, to white out.
From Salon • Jan. 23, 2022
She asked officials to transfer Officer Calcaterra, who is white, out of her unit because she had concerns for her well-being and safety.
From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2019
Her classmates wrote with pencils, but there were no erasers—they used dried squid bone to white out their mistakes.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
