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

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

It came within a hair’s breadth of crushing the prow, and with the backwash the boat was borne landward.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton