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Example sentences for "swash"

Lexicographically close words:
swarming; swarms; swart; swarthy; swarved; swashbuckler; swashbucklers; swashbuckling; swashed; swashing
  1. Place one gallon of gasolene in the basin with the coat, and swash up and down until all grease and dirt has been loosened, then place on hangers in the open air, allowing to dry and gasolene to evaporate.

  2. But, for my own part, I have no faith in that affection which will splinter a loving heart every day of its life, and yet, when it has ceased to beat, will make atonement with an idle swash of tears.

  3. Hear it swash against the sides of the boat!

  4. The types modelled on the latter were called by printers in the seventeenth century, "Swash Letters.

  5. But it was too late to question the old man's intentions: we were already in the back swash of the breakers.

  6. The sea assumed a bright metallic tint and rose and fell in uneasy measure, while the booming of the breakers on the distant reef, and the swash of the waves as our craft rolled to and fro, were painfully distinct.

  7. In a jiffy Private Swash Buckler had fished $3.

  8. Swash Buckler's hand dropped from Billy's arm, his head nodded and he fell in a heap.

  9. This time he looked down at the ground and said, "Lieutenant Swash Buckler, you have heard the orders--execute them.

  10. He is here, sire," said Private Swash Buckler, leading Billy before the throne.

  11. Then in a hoarse commanding voice he called, "Private Swash Buckler, you have heard the orders--execute them.

  12. And Billy found himself in the grasp of Private Swash Buckler, and being led in the direction of the City.

  13. The waves broke in a continuous swash under the planking, casting at intervals a piece of wreckage or rope of seaweed on the shore.

  14. The swell broke with a long swash and gurgle under the floor; a passing gust set the door behind her creaking; the heavier one at the opposite end of the bar-room was also swinging, and between its widening crack Stratton appeared on the walk.

  15. The swell broke with a long tramp and swash at the foot of the bluff, for it was flood-tide.

  16. A timber creaked; the great building shook in a heavier gust, and the sea swept with a long hiss and swash on the beach under the piling.

  17. When he came back they lingered, listening to the swash and gurgle of the tide among the piers.

  18. Didn't you hear the swash of her paddle-wheels as you came in?

  19. Faith, I have not often heard such music as the swash of the water about her paddle-wheels as we set off.

  20. Not a sound, save the regular swish-swash of the broom.

  21. About these swash bucklers," said I, "I am informed they are a large fraternity.

  22. The voices of the ice and the heavy swash of the overturned hummock-tables are at this moment dinning in my ears.

  23. Looking across the level, letting my eyes wander from tussock to tussock of entangled floe-ice, as they had grouped themselves in freezing, I heard the blowing of a narwhal, followed by the peculiar swash of squeezing ice.

  24. Already the swash from the steam launch was telling on Jerry's lead.

  25. Then it gradually went ahead, until Jerry was caught in the swash of the tiny waves it produced.

  26. He saw that the swash of the steamer was likely to throw the boat on the rocks, and grind her planking upon the sharp points of the island.

  27. I saw the fourth lieutenant order the boat to shove off; I suppose he did it to prevent the swash of the steamer from grinding the cutter on the rocks.

  28. I saw that steamer coming, and I ordered Sanford to shove off, so that her swash should not damage the boat.

  29. Whenever one of these disturbers of our peace passed the flat, I was obliged to cast off and pull into the stream, as the swash would almost ingulf me if I remained tied to the side of the large boat.

  30. Ain't ye afeard some steamboat will swash the life out of her?

  31. The three blockade-runners will follow you as close as is practicable, and when you torpedo the frigate they will dart through the Swash and try to get to sea.

  32. Of course, all the others are blockaded, too, but General Beauregard thinks that if we can torpedo the flagship the others will hurry to her assistance and the blockade-runners can get out through the Swash Channel.

  33. The swash brought swiftly to mind the days of his youth when his life was all before him, and his kingdom was the length of his deck.

  34. Only the creak of the swaying yard, the hoarse swash of the water, the panting of deep breathing broke the silence, then once more from the lofty prow came the commanding voice.

  35. A steamship drawing not more than eighteen feet of water may enter through Swash Channel (follow the course on the chart).

  36. The cabin did not reel, for it sat close in a socket of sods--it endured in the rush of snow like a rock set in the swash of savage seas.

  37. The whole land was a river, and the shanty was like a boat beached on a bar in the swash of it.

  38. I told you not to buy in the Green Swash Mine, and now I suppose you have gone and done it, because I said it might possibly be active some day.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swash" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aqueduct; babble; bed; bespatter; boast; bounce; bubble; burble; canal; culvert; dabble; damp; dampen; dash; dew; douche; douse; flume; foam; froth; gulch; gully; gurgle; hose; irrigate; lap; lapping; moisten; paddle; peacock; plash; prance; purl; race; ripple; runnel; shower; slobber; slop; slosh; sluice; sparge; spate; spatter; spillway; splash; splatter; splurge; sponge; spray; sprinkle; spume; stalk; strut; swagger; swaggerer; swank; swash; swashbuckler; swish; syringe; trill; wash; washing; water; watercourse; waterway; waterworks; wet