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Example sentences for "being washed"

  • It helps the spreading ulcers in the head, it being washed with a lye made thereof.

  • The soluble alkalies, the most important of which is potash, as well as the soluble phosphates, are also, under such conditions, lost to the guano by being washed out by the rain.

  • It is thus soon fixed in the soil, beyond the risk of being washed away.

  • We have to remember that while nitrates are constantly being washed down to the lower layers of the soil, there is likewise an upward compensating movement of the soil-water constantly taking place.

  • These shells, which are seldom much over an inch long, are very common on some of our sandy beaches, being washed up in considerable numbers after the animals have died, but the specimens are seldom perfect.

  • We have spoken of the hydroid communities as being washed up on the beaches of our rocky coasts, but the collector of these interesting objects should not depend on such specimens for purposes of study.

  • While they were pondering as to the best means for extricating themselves from the danger of being washed away, a new one arose.

  • This was their sole remaining means of escape, and was now in danger of being washed overboard by the heavy seas that were breaking over the ship in cataracts of foam.

  • They ran a fearful risk of being washed away, but he could not leave Jack to perish.

  • The feeling that there was now less risk of being washed away, made him not so anxious as at first to withstand the strong desire which had attacked him, and yielding to it, his eyes closed, and he dropped off to sleep.

  • Now one more daring than the others would crawl along the cable in spite of the risk of being washed off by the hungry breakers into which it was occasionally plunged.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being washed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being about; being afraid; being always; being apprehended; being bent; being capable; being desirous; being drawn; being eaten; being employed; being forced; being held; being informed; being invisible; being mentioned; being related; being relieved; being right; being shot; being slain; being succeeded; being surrounded; being unable; being usually; being well; being written