were washing
- past progressive of wash.
Example Sentences
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“Does that mean that fans wanted to come because they were washing away the scandal? I don’t know,” O’Brien said.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2024
There was this fear in Europe that American comic books, along with American culture, were washing over the globe.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2021
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis said it was forced to switch to bottled drinking water and bagged ice and that staff and patients were washing with hand sanitizer and no-rinse bathing wipes.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2021
"Doctors scrabbled to do the most urgent of surgeries, portering, scrubbing the floors, working with one or two remaining nursing staff. Matrons were washing linen," one doctor wrote by email.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2020
At Hickam Field, soldiers were washing a car.
From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
