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
• In April 2020, researchers documented a case of a dead female thresher shark that washed up on the Libyan coast with part of a swordfish's bill still lodged in its body.
  — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
• Steele and her work associates travel up and down the coastline looking for loose jet that’s washed up with the tide, the only jet you’re legally allowed to gather.
  — Emili Vesilind, CNN, 17 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024