washed-up
Example Sentences
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Wind gusts were so strong at Island Bay that two women were knocked off their feet as waves washed up over the road, an AFP journalist saw.
From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026
However, ZSL says the public will also be able to observe some operations and post-mortems, including examinations of dolphins or porpoises that have washed up dead on UK beaches.
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026
A message in a bottle dropped from a boat off Canada has been found washed up in the north-east of Scotland.
From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026
The ripples of Brook's night out in Wellington, when he was "clocked" by a nightclub bouncer, washed up nearly 7,000 miles away in Colombo.
From BBC • Jan. 21, 2026
Exhausted and wet, he felt like the survivor of a shipwreck himself, a lost boy who’d just washed up on the doorstep of his uncle’s mysterious house.
From "The Marvels" by Brian Selznick
