wash up
Example Sentences
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His Croydon store, with a colourful Christmas aisle, is bustling on a weekend visit with queues for the tills as shoppers stock up on mouthwash, washing up liquid, sweets and batteries.
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Large quantities of small plastic pellets have washed up on an East Sussex coastline causing a pollution incident, a council has said.
From BBC
"Frustrated" locals are being urged to avoid the wreckage of an abandoned boat washed up on a beach more than six weeks ago.
From BBC
They were discovered after being washed up by the flood waters in the storm, said Desmond McKenzie, Jamaica's minister of Local Government and Community Development.
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Work to clean up the pollution began in the 1980s, after particles were found washed up on the nearby foreshore.
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