wash up
Example Sentences
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In that year more than 50,000 seabirds washed up on the Europe's Atlantic coast.
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He worries that even more detritus will wash up on the beach in the future.
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Half a dead shark had washed up in the tide.
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"It had been really stormy, and there was a lot of debris washed up, but as I got closer I realised this was a turtle - but it looked very dead," he said.
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A woman whose prosthetic leg was swept out to sea said it was "just amazing" after it was found washed up on a beach in East Yorkshire 10 months later.
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