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Meanings of just awash in English

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Usage of just awash in English
1
Her rail was just awash, and she was sailing very fast.
Vane of the Timberlands
2
Some of the shoals were just awash, others bare.
Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War
3
Submarine just awash on the starboard quarter, sir!
Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns; Or, Sinking the German U-Boats
4
Sit down, the lips just awash, so that the accurately ballasted portion cushions on the cleanly sand.
Tropic Days
5
Amidships the sheer-rail was just awash.
The road
6
They were just awash with threads from different countries and people were meeting up in different areas and setting up little sub-groups.
The Guardian
7
At the end of two hours they came upon a square-rigger with her decks just awash, and six men clinging to her rigging.
A Labrador Doctor / The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfe...
8
Our whale was beginning to swell rapidly, already floating at least three feet above the surface instead of just awash, as when newly killed.
The Cruise of the "Cachalot" Round the World After Sperm Whales
9
Some 40 m. distant to the E. is the Invisible Bank, with one rock just awash; and 34 m. S.E.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
10
"The Shivering Sand would have been just awash, and no more."
The Moonstone
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