How to Use wash up in a Sentence

wash up

verb
  • Please mask up, wash up and do the right thing, for the common good.
    Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 5 May 2020
  • Dead birds and fish have begun to wash up on the shore.
    Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2021
  • The whale was the second to wash up in Atlantic City in 15 days.
    oregonlive, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Sip wine, eat cheese, and watch the waves wash up against the rocky coastline.
    Hannah Seligson, Town & Country, 25 Nov. 2019
  • But the boats and rafts kept washing up on Greek shores.
    Patrick Strickland, The New York Review of Books, 4 Mar. 2020
  • About that black sand: No, there wasn’t an oil spill that washed up on the beach.
    Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 23 Nov. 2019
  • In winter, the adults are pulled out by big swells and wash up on shore.
    Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Waves could reach up to 24 feet near the coast and could wash up close to beaches, the NWS said.
    Dominic Fracassa, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Oct. 2021
  • One was found dead, their body washed up some 3 miles away.
    Patrick Smith, NBC News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Or wash up with the longer-dead, now in blackening piles along the islet in the middle of the creek.
    Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2021
  • And me, as a grown woman, having to wash up in — at a sink (sighs).
    CBS News, 26 Feb. 2022
  • Over the last few months, these blue blobs have been washing up on shores in droves.
    Julia Daye, Sacramento Bee, 21 May 2024
  • And thanks to ocean currents, some of those drugs often wash up around the keys.
    Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 26 July 2023
  • Hundreds of gray whales have washed up dead since 2019.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The small beads continue to wash up on the island’s shores to this day.
    Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2021
  • Most of them had washed up from the sea and despite the sizeable pile, more would soon be added.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The chamber has found about 20 bodies washed up onto the beach or by the docks.
    Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Right whales that die due to rope lines don’t always wash up on shore.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Oct. 2022
  • Multiple species of dead fish have washed up on the lake’s shores for over a week.
    James Ward, USA TODAY, 13 July 2024
  • Every week or so, the man would stop by to change clothes and wash up in the sink near Nadel's chambers.
    Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 10 July 2021
  • The nets wash up on the beach and can melt when temperatures rise.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2023
  • And, for five years in a row, tens of thousands of starved sea birds have washed up in Alaska.
    Abby Jones, The Conversation, 10 Jan. 2020
  • To cure themselves of spider bites, Pliny wrote, deer ate crabs washed up on the beach, and sick goats did the same.
    Adrienne Mayor, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2024
  • The marine mammal washed up on the beach and was missing its tail and had a gash on its back.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Debris from the plane washed up on the coast of the African island of Reunion more than a year after the crash.
    Tim Pearce, Washington Examiner, 19 Feb. 2020
  • So if a person touches a pill, the best advice is to wash up.
    oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The church dealt with many people who washed up in Alaska, sometimes on the run.
    David James, Anchorage Daily News, 16 July 2023
  • The saga of the skeleton began in May 2000, when a dead gray whale washed up on the flat, sandy beaches of Long Beach.
    Jamie Hale | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 22 Dec. 2019
  • What comes next is a bunch of dystopian things happening like washed up sea monsters and alien lasers trying to trap them.
    Angel Diaz, Billboard, 28 June 2024
  • On a quiet summer morning, a body washes up on a Nantucket beach.
    Rachel Seo, Variety, 6 Sep. 2024

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