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

Rather than absorbing wave energy, seawalls and riprap can create backwash that collides with incoming waves, engineers realized, setting off supercharged turbulence that chews away at shoreline protection.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 20, 2022

Federal Reserve are all - to differing degrees - now facing a backwash from years of policy-driven but lucrative balance sheet expansion.

From Reuters • Oct. 27, 2022

“This generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space,” Kennedy declared.

From Washington Post • Jun. 23, 2021

At noon the men heaved the laden boat out on the backwash of a breaking wave, and the remainder of the stores was ferried out on the Stancomb Wills.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong