Sentence example with the word 'swash'

swash

aqueduct, burble, douse, hose, nullah, riverway, spindrift, stream bed, swashbuckle, wash, wet

Definition n. the movement or sound of water

Last update: September 24, 2015


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More and more she leans over to the whale, while every gasping heave of the windlass is answered by a helping heave from the billows; till at last, a swift, startling snap is heard; with a great swash the ship rolls upwards and backwards from the whale, and the triumphant tackle rises into sight dragging after it the disengaged semicircular end of the first strip of blubber.   [Please select]

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Soon the swash and flow of light flooding the street and sidewalks shines the clearer.   [Please select]

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A steamship drawing not more than eighteen feet of water may enter through Swash Channel (_follow the course on the chart_).   [Please select]

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How frightened I was, though, when my feet touched water and my body went, with a swash, right under it.   [Please select]

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And then the jungle: its discordant uproar, its hammering of frogs, its hoots and howls, the dismal swash of flood waters.   [Please select]

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He felt the swash of the fragrant water upon his body.   [Please select]

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"It must be fun to swash the water round and dig out the soap."   [Please select]

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They did as they were bidden, and then the little man said, "Swash, swish."   [Please select]

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Kala Nag swashed out of the water, blew his trunk clear, and began another climb.   [Please select]

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Your walk"--Dorothy thought she had been swaggering like a veritable swash-buckler--"your voice, the curves of your form, all betray you.   [Please select]

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All was still, save for the crickets' ceaseless chirp, the soft thud of an August sweeting dropping in the grass, and the swish-swash of the water against his boat, tethered in the Willow Cove.   [Please select]

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