washing

Example Sentences

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The devastating effect of storms on seabirds, including the thousands of puffins washing up on the coastline in the South West, Channel Islands and France, has been well documented.

From BBC

Thompson said that recent reports of dead and dying seabirds washing ashore in large numbers from Spain to Scotland, is "devastating".

From BBC

The term has become caught up in the “PowerPoint washing” of companies that want to get credit for AI without doing anything meaningful, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal

It requires predicting trends, washing garments based on specific needs, repairing some of them and, unlike most e-commerce companies, covering the costs to ship items both to customers and then back to warehouses.

From The Wall Street Journal

There was one showing the hills where Duane’s cave was, with a morning light washing them in an all too familiar golden hue.

From Literature