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Examples of awash in a Sentence
The deck of the boat was almost awash.
the streets were awash from the heavy rains
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But the chancellor also rebutted the Republican narrative that UCLA was awash in antisemitism.
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Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2024
That was a more flamboyantly experimental film than this one, awash with arrestingly strange imagery and sonic landscaping that foregrounded the disparate influences of a filmmaker born in Zambia and predominantly raised in Wales.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 16 May 2024
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Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2024
That was a more flamboyantly experimental film than this one, awash with arrestingly strange imagery and sonic landscaping that foregrounded the disparate influences of a filmmaker born in Zambia and predominantly raised in Wales.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 16 May 2024
See all Example Sentences for awash
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awash
adjective
ə-ˈwȯsh 
-ˈwäsh
1
: washed by waves or tide
2
: floating about
3
a
: flooded or covered with water
b
: filled or covered as if by a flood
an event awash in emotion
Geographical Definition
Awash
geographical name
river 500 miles (805 kilometers) long in eastern Ethiopia flowing northeast
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