wash up
Example Sentences
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"Our shores are filled with history, but remnants from the past can still sometimes wash up on our shores today," it said.
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026
Detainees were being served food on paper clam-shell to-go boxes, rather than regular trays, a staffer said, because the facility lacked employees to wash up at the end of mealtimes.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2025
Storm Darragh ripped the bench erected in memory of Bill Batcock from its base on Anglesey in December - only for it to wash up months later on a beach in Cumbria.
From BBC • Feb. 21, 2025
About 62,000 items wash up on the beach each year, much of it from the waterways in and around Glasgow, Scotland’s largest city.
From BBC • Feb. 2, 2025
The Easts showed me to my room and suggested I might like to wash up.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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