Example Sentences

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Uncontrolled flooding from the adjacent bayou made worse by nearby development has been washing graves into the adjoining ravine.

From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2023

Patti Ann Moskwa, the owner and a fourth-generation restaurateur, has been washing dishes herself.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 8, 2017

However, some of the dirt below the section that juts out and forms a step has been washing away.

From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2016

Once the trees are gone, denuded slopes are eroded by rainfall, which has been washing soil into 20-sq.-mi.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then another container is dropped right in front of him, and I realize Crystal has been washing them out in the sink and giving them to him.

From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden