How to Use backwash in a Sentence

backwash

noun

• The backwash from waves hitting the shore made the surfing there bumpy.
  — Sophie Cocke, ProPublica, 5 Dec. 2020
• That began to change in the backwash of Trump’s election.
  — Bob Moser, New Republic, 21 Aug. 2017
• The captain also had to keep the unicorn from getting caught up in the backwash of the ship’s engine.
  — Iliana Magra, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2020
• Wilson said the rocks could also cause a high-tide backwash.
  — Laylan Connelly, Orange County Register, 3 Mar. 2017
• The rocks could also cause a high-tide backwash, Wilson said.
  — Laylan Connelly, Orange County Register, 17 Apr. 2017
• Yet the bill carves out interest from muni debt from MAGI so that states and cities don’t get caught in the backwash.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2021
• Just like backwash hitting the surf, the result could be turbulent.
  — Jen Schwartz, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2018
• Bidon is cycling lingo and the French word for water bottle, and the fans pleaded for one as a race souvenir, Covid-19 and backwash be damned.
  — New York Times, 14 Apr. 2021
• It’s not as if the Americans, who won 33 medals (and 16 golds) in Rio needed much rookie assistance to leave the world in their backwash again.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2021
• This generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of green energy.
  — Philip B. Russell, The Mercury News, 19 July 2019
• Watery with pebble- and fleck-size bits of squash and carrots that reminded me of sipping a toddler’s backwash.
  — Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 24 Nov. 2021
• Retain their own then let the initial wave of big money spending wash over them before searching the backwash for good deals.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 17 Mar. 2021
• This backwash is called acid reflux or even simply just reflux.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 26 Apr. 2018
• This was part of the backwash from the rising secularism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
  — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2021
• Now times have changed, and Chinese scientists at U.S. universities are trapped in the backwash.
  — David Armstrong, ProPublica, 18 Mar. 2020
• Behind these high water marks are remnants of backwash channels carved by the retreating water.
  — William Herkewitz, Popular Mechanics, 19 May 2016
• Much of this might seem the amusing backwash of a raucous democracy, but competing claims of patriotism are helping wedge America apart.
  — Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 July 2018
• Phoenix Fire Department officials say the woman was treated for dizziness and nausea but suffered no other ill effects when the stretcher spun ever-faster in the backwash of the helicopter's rotor blades.
  — orlandosentinel.com, 6 June 2019
• The burn is caused by a backwash of stomach acid into the esophagus and may be triggered by lying down within three hours after a meal, since gravity acts as an important barrier to reversed acid flow.
  — Janis Graham, Redbook, 28 Nov. 2017
• This backwash can irritate the lining of your esophagus and cause symptoms like heartburn, chest pain, difficulty swallowing, feeling like there’s a lump in your throat, a chronic cough, laryngitis, and disrupted sleep.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 14 Dec. 2018

Last Updated: 14 Aug 2024