Example Sentences

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At First Watch, by the end of Fermine’s shift at around 3 p.m., he will have washed hundreds of dishes, taken out the trash and mopped up the dish room.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

After reflecting on everything that happened—the control, the manipulation—I have washed my hands of this situation.

From Barron's • Mar. 4, 2026

After reflecting on everything that happened — the control, the manipulation — I have washed my hands of this situation.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 3, 2026

Several of the birds have washed up on beaches across Scotland - about 1,000 miles from their winter home in the North Atlantic.

From BBC • Jan. 28, 2026

Their clotheslines are strung with underpants, nighties, socks, a display of soiled intimacy, which they have washed and rinsed, plunging their hands into the gray curdled water.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood