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Meanings of backwash in English
Usage of backwash in English
1
You don't want anyone you know to get caught in the backwash.
2
They had not the air of the backwash of a conquering army.
3
There were two rowboats trolling outside the heavy backwash from the cliffs.
4
The boy crawled into the darkness, vanishing with a backwash of wind.
5
The sensation was chilling; I tasted a metallic backwash in my mouth.
6
A moment later and the gawky Russian was transformed, gliding through the backwash.
7
Britain is free of its constraints, though not of its backwash.
8
Economics: Predictably, the Irish Ferries affair has generated a substantial backwash.
9
Two men were in it, paddling sturdily, taking advantage of eddies and backwash.
10
His education, that of the tramp worlds, and the backwash alleys of space.
11
Then he felt the backwash of the split-X engines hammer into his Pod.
12
The backwash tugs at his boots, hollowing out little channels under his feet.
13
The pressure recedes like the backwash of an imagined cardiac arrest.
14
Abbot and Qweffor were caught simultaneously by the lava and the magical backwash.
15
They watched a station wagon rumble by with its backwash of brown dust.
16
The wave of anger then mixed with the backwash of shame.
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Backwash across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common