bleached

[ UK /blˈiːt‍ʃt/ ]
[ US /ˈbɫitʃt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having lost freshness or brilliance of color
    faded jeans
    sun-bleached deck chairs
    washy colors
    a very pale washed-out blue
  2. (used of color) artificially produced; not natural
    a bleached blonde
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How To Use bleached In A Sentence

  • There is a great deal of controversy over the merits of bleached and unbleached flour.
  • Facing him across the bleached wooden plank, Melissa became aware of an extraordinary change in his manner.
  • Beneath, where even in August noonday, the sun cannot find its way by a chink, and babies lie stark naked in the cavernous shade, Allen Street presents a sort of submarine and greenish gloom, as if its humanity were actually moving through a sea of aqueous shadows, faces rather bleached and shrunk from sunlessness as water can bleach and shrink. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It
  • We follow the tracks across the cracked mudflats, out past the sunken pilings now exposed and bleached by sun, to the deepest channel turned fetid pond. Three Prayers for Rain
  • Over each, now, a wooden shelter was in place, already bleached by the sun.
  • The city was perched on its barren, hot rock, with scarcely a drop of water, and its inhabitants must often have been tempted to wish that there had been running down the sun-bleached bed of the Kedron a flashing stream, such as laved the rock-cut temples and tombs of Thebes. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah
  • He wears a long, white cotton thobe, bleached and pressed to a dazzling crispness, and a red-checked ghutra headdress held in place by the black agal headband, the wool cord once used by the Bedouins to hobble their camels. Richard Bangs: Bahrain: Once Was Paradise
  • At intervals, the double-height spaces are penetrated by the diagrid structure, bleached white like dinosaur ribs.
  • The needles were bleached with a 4% sodium hypochloride solution which macerates the mesophyll, and vascular and epidermal tissue were brushed off.
  • Searching out the bleached bones of the image we found instead flesh unexpressed by light.
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