Sentence examples for all washed up from inspiring English sources

"all washed up" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe someone or something as being completely finished or exhausted, both literally and figuratively. It can also mean being unsuccessful or having reached the end of one's peak or potential. Example: After years of struggling, the once promising athlete was all washed up and forced to retire due to multiple injuries. Example: Despite being a talented musician, he never achieved success and was left feeling all washed up in the competitive music industry.

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By 1955 she was all washed up.

"The Labour right is all washed up," he said.

"Owen thought we were all washed up," Anderson recalls.

And as of July 2008, she felt she was "all washed up".

Chic, accepted, all washed up, YBA is now ripe to be collected en masse by museums.

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That actually to me is a thrilling challenge because we all do make our way … or we would all be washed up by the tide and get picked up and thrown down".

By the summer of 1966, the group was all but washed up.

If all have washed up dead it is too much of a coincidence.

NACIRIA, Algeria — Hiding in the caves and woodlands surrounding this hill-country town, Algerian insurgents were all but washed up a few years ago.

Well folks, it appears my swell has moved in, a new tell all book washed up on shore this week and it's kind of crush worthy stuff.

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