wash up
Example Sentences
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“I had to visit each and every one of those and, you know, just kind of wash up the memories.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
This makes the sea lions sick, and eventually they could wash up dead.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
FoodCycle's Summer of Peas and Love appeal is calling for volunteers aged over 18 to "urgently" help cook, serve, wash up, and deliver surplus food across Sheffield, Bradford, Huddersfield, Hull and Leeds.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 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
And right now they need to get to their room and wash up before the general goes over to the War Department.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
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