Example Sentences

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She hired an assistant who sanitizes the tables, outdoor bathroom and shower, and backwashes the pool between events.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 16, 2021

The water plunges between razor-sharp rocks, whipped to a froth by backwashes, submerged logs and even a sunken locomotive that derailed into the river years ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

At that season the river had sunk into its narrowest bed, and there were backwashes and sluggish channels full of light-green tinted water.

From Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Burleigh, Bennet

In spite of the stationary eddies or momentary backwashes we observe here and there, its stream moves in a definite direction, ever swelling and broadening.

From A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson by Benson, Vincent

Broad currents of thought go on their way without being deflected by backwashes, or eddies or spurts into blind passages.

From Prisoner for Blasphemy by Foote, G. W. (George William)