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
"It was always going to wash up here."
From BBC • Mar. 20, 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
Scientists are able to study the creatures only when they wash up on a beach.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2024
He sternly tells me to wash up and eat.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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