Example Sentences

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And no amount of the fancy beauty products she touts on her Instagram page will wash it off.

From Slate • Jan. 31, 2024

Mortuary workers will wash them and lay them out on a wooden table in the correct anatomical position for further study.

From BBC • Jan. 3, 2024

Until the mussels rebound, wastewater entering the Dnipro above Kakhovka Dam will wash downstream largely unfiltered.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 3, 2024

Data published later this month for April is expected to show inflation beginning a more substantial slowdown because a surge in household energy bills will wash out of the annual inflation calculations.

From New York Times • May 11, 2023

“I’m hoping cool, blue-green water will wash away the war.”

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes