backwash

Example Sentences

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The Royal Family has had a difficult start to 2024 - uncertain in the face of health problems and surrounded by a backwash of rumour and speculation.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2024

So the absence of my baseball weekend money is a piddly backwash in the tide of wealth that’s engulfing Florida.

From Seattle Times • May 6, 2023

"It's still the backwash of the freeze-in... the crude oil number implies that the refineries are not up and running," said Bob Yawger, director of energy futures at Mizuho in New York.

From Reuters • Jan. 11, 2023

“This generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space,” Kennedy declared.

From Washington Post • Jun. 23, 2021

"Thinking like that will get you lost in the backwash of history," I said.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison