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How to use the word washed in a Sentence? Page #3

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The problem that sub Saharan Africa has is a lack of fresh water, safe water, and adequate sanitation, people who need to urinate and defecate tend to do so on the open ground, and their excreta can be washed into water where the eggs will then infect snails.

Alan Fenwick

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I brought some of those and when I left the foam party, they were white, because the foam washed the dye out of it. It was really bad, so these are like a step up.

Marco Rubio

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I think we’ll have a heck of a snap-back rally and crude will eventually, my guess, rebound to around $55 a barrel, we’re buying stocks thinking they’re awful close to getting washed out.

Gary Bradshaw

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

These kind of prolific rainfalls are not unprecedented, but this is definitely one for the history books, we have had numerous reports of road closures. We have had roads washed out, sink holes forming.

National Weather Service

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We cannot bear any longer to sit back and watch bodies of children and women washed ashore on the coasts of the Mediterranean and Aegean as a result of a forced helplessness, the solution of this crisis is through bringing down the tyrannic regime in Syria.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I really appreciate and find it fun to watch how he's completely rattling the mainstream Christian firmament, just look at the s**tstorm that erupted when he washed the feet of the Muslim prisoners. ... It's fascinating.

Sherilyn Connelly

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We just washed and were getting ready to head to the Masjid al-Haram for the Maghrib prayer( sunset prayer), it was a sandstorm which turned to rainstorm and lot of the construction covering boards were flying around, and lots of cracking noises which unfortunately ended with this tragedy. ... Everybody was pushing trying to escape from inside towards the exits.

Yahya Al Hashemi

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I am expecting more cases, we are sure that the body was washed ... so all those who took part in the washing of the corpse, all those who were helping her when she was having wet symptoms would all become infected.

Pallo Conteh

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It swept the gardens away to Kafetina River and buried some of them, too. At the same time Kafetina River flooded and gardens beside the riverbed were washed away.

Naisman Mitio

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Thirteen houses were completely washed away last night.

Brice Lefils

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The immediate impact is largely passed, the slug of contaminated water has washed through the system.

Bruce Thomson

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

If all people washed their hands promptly after completing a handshake, and especially after a series of handshakes, there would be little to no infectious illness transmission issues.

John Bradberry

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

If rainfall fails next week, then my investment in seeds and fertilisers will be washed out.

Vilas Shinde

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Traditionally the long and larger bones would be washed, wrapped in cloth and put in a funeral basket and buried.

Kaleo Paik

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

So as these compression garments claim it increases the blood flow during exercise, those negative -- well potentially negative -- properties can be washed out sooner.

Phil Hartmann

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Everyone in Tanna and other islands in the south, they really live subsistence lives, so they grow what they need for a short period. ... And the reality is that much of that would have been washed away by this storm, that's a grave concern because we desperately need to get food to people soon.

Tom Perry

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The flood washed away a 25-year-old bridge over Bagrot River, which is fed by five glaciated peaks.

Mazhar Hussain Hayat

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Discarded in ice pits, the human waste remains under the snow, when washed down by glaciers (when the snow melts), it comes out in the open.

Ang Tshering Sherpa

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

So far, it is estimated that 69,995 people have been displaced by the floods and 48 people have lost their lives. The floods have also damaged a lot of hectares of crops, washed away livestock and damaged infrastructure such as roads and bridges.

Peter Mutharika

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

You can tell they were grown, picked, washed and displayed with care.

Sean Brock

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Harsh reproof is like a violent storm, soon washed down the channel; but friendly admonitions, like a small shower, pierce deep, and bring forth better reformation.

R Chamberlain

added by anonymous
12 years ago

I washed my hair, then went to bed, when I got up my hair was gone. I now need someone to blame.

Paul. F. Meekin

added by anonymous
12 years ago

I washed my hair, then when to bed, when I got up my hair was gone. I now need someone to blame.

Paul. F. Meekin

added by anonymous
12 years ago

A crow is no whiter for being washed.

French Proverb

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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