backwash

Example Sentences

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The Royal Family has had a difficult start to 2024 - uncertain in the face of health problems and surrounded by a backwash of rumour and speculation.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2024

So the absence of my baseball weekend money is a piddly backwash in the tide of wealth that’s engulfing Florida.

From Seattle Times • May 6, 2023

"It's still the backwash of the freeze-in... the crude oil number implies that the refineries are not up and running," said Bob Yawger, director of energy futures at Mizuho in New York.

From Reuters • Jan. 11, 2023

Cleaning regularly is important, because there will inevitably be some backwash in your rinsing apparatus after use, which can contain virus particles, bacteria, allergens or other irritants that were flushed from the nose, Lane said.

From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2022

In Washington and its fancy suburbs, even in Millsburg, that was OK, but Lark Creek was the backwash of fashion.

From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson