wash up
Example Sentences
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This makes the precise consequences very difficult to predict, but this new wave of inflation from the Gulf will wash up on the shores of the rest of the globe, including here in the UK.
From BBC • Mar. 6, 2026
Storm Arwen saw hundreds of starfish and other sea creatures wash up near Nairn in the Highlands in November 2021.
From BBC • Sep. 9, 2025
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
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
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
