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

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

Then the backwash hit him, ripping him under and far out.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer