1. With all her best efforts, she was whitewashing a sepulchre.

2. In the decades following Japan's defeat, Japan came under criticism from Korea and China for whitewashing the warmongering activities of Imperial Japan.

3. Old Fletcher, whose conceptions of holiday - making were severe, was visible through the jasmine about his window or through the open door ( whichever way you chose to look ), poised delicately on a plank supported on two chairs, and whitewashing the ceiling of his front room.