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
He worries that even more detritus will wash up on the beach in the future.
From BBC • Feb. 18, 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
On Monday HM Coastguard said some were beginning to wash up around The Wash – a large inlet of the North Sea stretching from just south of Skegness to near Hunstanton, in Norfolk.
From BBC • Mar. 20, 2025
One of us has to wash up at night, and one of us has to wash up in the morning, to make sure she gets to have some hot water too.
From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds
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