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Example sentences for "swashed"

Lexicographically close words:
swarved; swash; swashbuckler; swashbucklers; swashbuckling; swashing; swastika; swat; swatch; swatches
  1. We were all crowded together, crouching on the canvas, and the water just swashed about us as if we were floating boards.

  2. She bumped against big trees that stood on the edge of the stream, and swashed through bushes that stuck out too far from the banks; but she was built for bumping and scratching, and didn't mind it.

  3. There wuz a tear standin' in every one of my eyes as I said it, for a hull tide of emotions from four hundred years past to the present swashed up aginst me as I grasped holt of her pretty hand, and we parted.

  4. The "Great Western" was plunging in her old style, and I swashed in my bunk as of yore.

  5. Three nights I swashed in my greasy bunk, like a solitary sardine in a box with the side knocked out.

  6. The tide still swashed under the worm-eaten planks; they shook at her step.

  7. The water was very cold; it swashed over his limbs, numbing him to the core.

  8. Launched, she swashed in the tide like a thing water-logged.

  9. Sagging off to loo'ard, the big barque rolled and plunged ponderously in the swing of the big Horn seas which, ever and anon, swashed over the rails and filled the decks until the clanging wash-ports drained the boarding brine away.

  10. The gear aloft banged and crashed and the sails flapped thunderously, while water spurted in through scupper hole and clanging wash-port and swashed across the decks.

  11. Were you ever standing on the deck of a sailing-craft, with a brisk breeze blowing, when all at once it fell to a dead calm, or went about so that your face was swashed with the wet canvas, and your hat knocked overboard?

  12. And then the Doctor rolled my unfortunate optic about like a billiard ball, until the liquid was swashed over the whole surface.

  13. Drouet dropped in at the lodge when he went down town, and swashed around with a great AIR, as Quincel met him.

  14. And I pointed to the main deck, upon which the sea rolled and swashed in little foamy waves through the side ports, which were now below the heave of the swell.

  15. The Great Western was plunging in her old style, and I swashed in my bunk as of yore.

  16. The water swashed fore and aft, but no longer pounded against the house on deck.

  17. The muddy water swashed up, and entirely covered the windows of the pilot-house, leaving enough of the soil to make the glass as opaque as the levee itself.

  18. Kneeling in the flood that swashed from bow to stern, he bailed vigorously until the boat was fairly clear.


  19. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swashed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.