How to Use awash in a Sentence

awash

adjective
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  • The deck of the boat was almost awash.
  • By the end of the novel, the chateau is awash in blood and body parts.
    — WIRED, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Yes, the menus are bound in plastic in the 250-seat dining room, awash in red booths.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The Spurs are awash in guards in the range of 6-4 and 6-5, and George would only add to their collection.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Jan. 2023
  • With the floodgates now open, expect the U.K. charts to be awash with Christmas cuts in the weeks ahead.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The standard pool should be favorite-heavy, and the bonus-point pool should be awash with long shots.
    — Victor Mather, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The forest opens, and the jungle floor is awash with tent poles, children, makeshift pots and stoves.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 15 Apr. 2023
  • TikTok is awash with The White Lotus ski lodge dream casts.
    — Vulture, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The interior is awash in shades of azure and ivory that mirror the soothing blues and whites of the sea and sand.
    — Dana Givens, Robb Report, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Sydney was awash in green and gold, and the wave of wattle is looking to wash over the rest of the country in the coming weeks.
    — Rachel Yabsley, Vogue, 1 Aug. 2023
  • That was when the A’s were awash in star power, winning World Series by the fistful.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2023
  • As per Biden’s unique aesthetic, each room is awash in the colors of the rainbow.
    — Katie Jackson, Robb Report, 18 July 2023
  • As a result of all that spending, the district is awash in attack ads.
    — oregonlive, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Throughout Tuesday, the platform was awash with French Swifties’ anger.
    — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
  • The kinds of plastics that the real world is awash in are much more diverse, and their impact may be more complex.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Each room is awash in natural light thanks to the oversized windows.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Despite the long-term financial benefits of the Big Ten move, the Bruins won’t be awash with cash for a while.
    — J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2023
  • The group’s many videos have now been viewed tens of millions of times, all of them subtly hammering home the message that the ocean is awash in trash.
    — Cara Buckley, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Film Twitter was awash with analysis of The Red Door’s success.
    — Vulture, 9 July 2023
  • Fast forward to now, and the planet is awash in a toxic soup of synthetic compounds, and for what?
    — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Mass shootings are extremely rare in the Balkan region, although Serbia is awash in guns left over from the wars of the 1990s.
    — Jovana Gec and Dusan Stojanovic, Anchorage Daily News, 3 May 2023
  • My social media feeds as of late have been awash in cool aunt memes — both in English and Spanish.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The dining room, which includes a rear bar, is awash in the owner’s favorite color: The menu, booths and ceiling are all blue.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The model starts with the assumption that, as dry riverbeds and ocean basins on Mars reveal, the planet was once awash in water.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Every field and yard is awash in the yellow/gold of the California poppy.
    — Helen Li, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Even apart from the Barbie pink, almost every frame in the trailer is awash in color, and some experts think this could be a hint to the plot.
    — Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The campaigns Brand has run and supported are awash in appeals to preserving the city’s beach town charm.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2022
  • One son’s room is awash in navy, with a colorful artwork by Andy Warhol thrown in for good measure.
    — ELLE Decor, 13 July 2023
  • At the time, post-Soviet Moscow was awash in Western ideas.
    — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Despite the recent decrease, the United States remains awash in pain pills.
    — David Ovalle, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023

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