lave
Frequently Asked Questions
- At high tide, the water laves the banks of the islands in the inner bay.
- I could spend all day listening to the gentle current lave over the pebbles.
- The wounds of the injured were laved.
Example Sentences
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In 2023 it brokered a deal between bitter rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran, which lave long stood on opposing sides in proxy wars in the Middle East.
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2026
The eruption eased pressure that had been building under a lave dome perched on the crater.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2021
Khalid Thomas, Elias Valtonen and walk-on Kyle Feit all played sporadically, but their transfers lave Hurley with a thin roster, particularly if White and Martin don’t return.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 1, 2020
The matter should lave been investigated much earlier, said the officials, and then secretly taken up with the Soviets before Capitol Hill even earned about it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Despite the fact that I hated hem, Denna’s men taught me a lesson that I might never lave learned otherwise.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
Back at the Aiden house, the Shabbat dinner guests have all laved their hands with a glass of water and returned to the sun deck for matzo-ball soup.
From Nature ● Jun. 22, 2011
Catherine the Great, Jonathan Swift, John Wesley and a score of other 18th century movers and shapers are laved more in the warm glow of idiosyncrasy than in the cold light of 100% accuracy.
From Time Magazine Archive
To prepare the quadruped idols for the worshiping throng, handlers laved them in exotic ceremonies.
From Time Magazine Archive
But let a Silver Shadow come humming along, and our hollow faces will suddenly be laved in an involuntary beatific glow, like the Ancient Mariner just before the bird dropped.
From Time Magazine Archive
He drained away the filthy water he sat in and laved fresh warm water over him from the pan and wrapped him shivering in a towel and wrapped him again in a blanket.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
"No use; I'm laving you; I'm going on my long journey," said Bridget, while Granny used a shovel as a fan to relieve her gusty breathing.
From The Manxman A Novel - 1895 by Sir Hall Caine
As though laving the cross-street’s dirty feet, the East River shimmered dimly in the lights from shore and from passing steam craft.
From Lonesome Town by Ethel Dorrance
It must be remembered that at table persons of all ranks used their fingers instead of forks, and the laving of the hands during the meals was important for comfort and cleanliness.
From Women of England by Bartlett Burleigh James
The adjoining village of Ascoli has also suffered:—32 houses laving fallen in, and the church being levelled with the ground.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 by Various
When I came to, Mrs. Garner, greatly frightened, was kneeling beside me and laving my face with eau-de-Cologne.
From Pretty Madcap Dorothy Or, How She Won a Lover by Laura Jean Libbey
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