How to Use wash up in a Sentence

wash up

verb
  • Two more bodies have washed up since then.
    — Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Right whales that die due to rope lines don’t always wash up on shore.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Oct. 2022
  • Please mask up, wash up and do the right thing, for the common good.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 5 May 2020
  • In winter, the adults are pulled out by big swells and wash up on shore.
    — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Sip wine, eat cheese, and watch the waves wash up against the rocky coastline.
    — Hannah Seligson, Town & Country, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Over the last few months, these blue blobs have been washing up on shores in droves.
    — Julia Daye, Sacramento Bee, 21 May 2024
  • Then, the male is washed up and fertilizes the eggs.
    — Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Then, the male is washed up and fertilizes the eggs.
    — Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 1 June 2026
  • Soon enough, Daniel’s body washes up on the lake’s shore.
    — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Agnes' boat washed up onshore but Agnes' body has not been found.
    — Joe Haakenson, latimes.com, 23 Mar. 2018
  • And thanks to ocean currents, some of those drugs often wash up around the keys.
    — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 26 July 2023
  • Multiple species of dead fish have washed up on the lake’s shores for over a week.
    — James Ward, USA TODAY, 13 July 2024
  • Nate washed up sand and logs and even a large trash bin into the four-lane highway.
    — Noelle Crombie, OregonLive.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • So if a person touches a pill, the best advice is to wash up.
    — oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The nets wash up on the beach and can melt when temperatures rise.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The small beads continue to wash up on the island’s shores to this day.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2021
  • Most of them had washed up from the sea and despite the sizeable pile, more would soon be added.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • People want to say Tom is washed up and his body has given up on him.
    — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Things began to go awry when a dead body washed up on the shore, kicking off a hunt to find the killer.
    — Stephanie Sengwe, People.com, 19 June 2025
  • The marine mammal washed up on the beach and was missing its tail and had a gash on its back.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2019
  • But the 37-year-old is clearly washed up and was benched after three games.
    — Dan Duggan, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2025
  • And so far, there’s no way to prevent the huge piles of seaweed from washing up on shore.
    — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 9 May 2026
  • Or wash up with the longer-dead, now in blackening piles along the islet in the middle of the creek.
    — Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Being washed up on the shore of America was good!
    — Reshma Gopaldas, Vogue, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The church dealt with many people who washed up in Alaska, sometimes on the run.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 16 July 2023
  • The chamber has found about 20 bodies washed up onto the beach or by the docks.
    — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Its carcass washed up not far from a coastal trail, drawing onlookers.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 22 June 2026
  • Meanwhile, ocean water seeps beneath the ice shelf and washes up against the base of the glacier.
    — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 4 Apr. 2018
  • That whale washed up only about a block from where Thursday’s sea creature was found.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Every week or so, the man would stop by to change clothes and wash up in the sink near Nadel's chambers.
    — Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 10 July 2021

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