Owing to serious washoutsabove and below Lawrence, all train service has had to be abandoned until further notice!
The report that the trains to the city had all been stopped by serious washouts was being circulated in every direction.
I was just watching a chance for washouts or snowstorms to get on a train diving into the danger.
Look out for washouts and culverts and bridges damaged by running ice and water between Dunwood and Kingston.
Then there were washouts and snowstorms quite as severe as any experienced in the northern country.
Washouts further up the mountain prevented our going, so we could do nothing but sit around and discuss the situation.
The terrible breaks and washouts will require days yet to repair, and supplies that come from the interior of the State must come by means of wagons.
Trails are routed for safety and constructed to avoid washouts and erosion.
Washouts are a hazard in a storm and afterwards, so be on the lookout for them.
Some of the washouts were a mile in length and with the tracks had gone the roadbed.
We have found out definitely that our bridge at Piqua is still standing, although there are vast washouts at each side of it.
According to reports received, there were at least one hundred and twenty washouts along that line farther west, with many bridges gone.
All railroad traffic in Cleveland was suspended because of washouts and no trains entered or left.
There were washouts and quicksands; treacherous fords and shelving precipices to be encountered, but here was a fortune guarded only by a woman whose recklessness led her toward disaster.
Now it was midsummer and the railroad washouts had been repaired, so she had only to cross two mountain ridges and take the jerky little train from a point ten miles distant to her destination.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "washouts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
