Another way would be to call it an essay upon insecurity, although the word essay is too dry to use in a story which is fairly awash with alcohol.
Many modern novels of the better class, and a great many modern poems, seem to meawash and wallowing like derelicts on the high seas.
Two, by chance, drifted upon a lip of rock, where they sprawled half-awash and were presently dead of the chill.
In a moment or two her piercing eyes detected those two little limp bodies lying awash on the lip of granite at the other side of the pool.
Bassas da India: A French possession since 1897, this atoll is a volcanic seamount surrounded by reefs and awash at high tide.
They found the island a mere reef awash at high water.
The god Mau'i, the same that drew Tonga to the surface with his entangled fish-hook, lying in a cave at the bottom of the sea, pushed up the floor of the ocean until it became a reef awash at low water.
The seaward edge of the platform is usually somewhat higher than the inner part, and is often awash at low water.
An atoll is a ring-shaped reef, either awash at low tide or surmounted by several islets, or more rarely by a complete strip of dry land surrounding a central lagoon.
The D-5 was running awash at the time and only two officers and two seamen were saved.
The rock awash symbol indicates a rock awash at some stage of the tide, unless more definitely stated.
He drew forth his pistol and raised it slowly to a line with his eye on the shark's head, now just awash under the frame a few feet distant.
Even that which was awash caught after the fire had started to heat things up well, and the entire after part of the Sovereign was a mass of flames.
Sounds like we were awash in mutual admiration," Stone said.
The new esplanade along the river was awashin the rain and was uncharacteristically empty.
There were ten of us altogether, and a pretty tight fit we found it on that bit of a raft, all awash as she was.
A helpless submarine lying awash would stand a very poor chance in action if exposed to the fire of a hostile vessel.
Travelling at a modest ten knots the waterborne craft made straight for the flying-boat that was lying practically awash in the slight swell.
I shouldn't be surprised if we were close to Sedd-ul-Bahr, or somewhere within range of the guns, otherwise the German submarine would be running awash with her ensign displayed.
Ordering the hands to their stations, Huxtable brought the craft awash and had the motors re-started.
The submarine was emptying her ballast tanks and was already in the awash condition.
A submarine couldn't torpedo a cockleshell like this, and unless she comes up awash we're just as safe from gunfire.
Ingoldsby thereupon returned to the boats, emptying his ballast tanks and rising awash close beside them, greatly to the astonishment of their occupants.
While back at the mouth of the coulee lay two unconscious forms, their bodies partly awash in the lapping waves of the rising river.
The submarineawash presented too big a target broadside on.
Directly they spotted the "E Something" running awash and with the White Ensign prominently displayed, the tramp altered her course.
As it was, the ship was awash fore and aft from seas breaking over her.
But at times they were objectionable, especially when the gin was awash in the bilges.
Especially when we get down off the Horn, and the dingy half-deck will be awash most of the time with icy water.
She was awash underfoot before we exhausted ourselves, and lay, breathing heavily, over the oars.
The old barque was labouring heavily, reeling to it, the decksawash to our knees.
The fo'ca'sle was awash through a shattered door, and all hands were gathered on the poop for such safety as it held.
Without a word the cowboy reached for a bar of soap that lay awash in the filthy water of a basin upon a bench beside the door, and jammed it down the man's throat.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "awash" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
