washed-out
Example Sentences
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Wearing a washed-out prison uniform and sporting a short grey beard, Masud listened as the hearing before judge Dabney L. Friedrich got under way at the District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday.
From BBC • Feb. 11, 2026
Celebrities like Dua Lipa and Lena Dunham have posted wistful, washed-out pictures celebrating the decennial.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026
It’s funny how just the grainy, washed-out look of videotape can conjure so much melancholy.
From Salon • Oct. 12, 2025
The floods left a wake of devastation, including landslides, washed-out roads and collapsed bridges across the state.
From Seattle Times • May 5, 2024
Across the creek from Julia’s house, where the old washed-out road lay in crumbled chunks, stood a concrete abutment that once served as an overpass to the floodwaters of winter and spring.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
