wash up
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
Storm Darragh ripped the bench erected in memory of Bill Batcock from its base on Anglesey in December - only for it to wash up months later on a beach in Cumbria.
From BBC • Feb. 21, 2025
About 62,000 items wash up on the beach each year, much of it from the waterways in and around Glasgow, Scotland’s largest city.
From BBC • Feb. 2, 2025
My parents didn’t have any work scheduled that day, so we headed to the public library to kill time and wash up.
From "Crenshaw" by Katherine Applegate
