The workers at the old bleachery organized a safety inspection after the chemical leak.

We foraged a basket of bleaberries along the misty trail.

Her bleachorexia worried her dentist after he noticed she was using home whitening kits far more often than recommended.

After the factory closed, the town bleakened into a place of empty streets and silent shops.

The prolonged drought was bleakening the once-fertile valley.

When winter arrives, the landscape bleakens under the constant gray skies.

Every summer the villagers took their linens to the bleachfields to lay them out in the sun.

In the early morning light, the villagers spread sheets across the bleachfield, their hands working quickly to catch the sun's first rays.

After watching that movie, I desperately needed some brain bleach.

After watching that horror movie, I needed some mind bleach, so I put on a silly cat video marathon.