Sentence examples for has washed down from inspiring English sources

To date the timing and estimate the amount of material eroded from the Alps, the scientists examined 2.5-kilometer-deep cores taken from three sites in a basin to the north, where sediment has washed down from the mountains and accumulated for tens of millions of years.

"Gifts from our northern neighbors," he quips, referring to refuse that has washed down from California.

When all the poison has washed down the drains, the truth is that Real's fightback against Catalan dominance looks broken.

Anyone who has washed down a bout of pondering his own mortality with a Peep will know that we've been mostly successful in this endeavor.

In Arizona, clubs head for dry creeks, sifting through the dirt where gold might have washed down in past floods.

The news is quite as repulsive as anything else that the floods have washed down but distaste is not the important thing about it.

Thames told me its modelling showed that, had it not released the sewage into the Crane, it would have washed down into the road tunnel entering Heathrow, forcing the owners, BAA, to close the airport on Sunday afternoon, as thousands of people returned from half-term holidays.

Small roadcuts in the steeper slopes among the vines expose above the chalk the sands, clays, and marls of younger age that have washed down off the mountain and veneered the chalk, resulting in what is looked upon as elixir soil for the signature wine of this province.

She said debris had washed down with water from high ground and blocked a culvert.

Most of the excavated terrace structures or features containing in situ cultural material were overlain by substantial soil deposits that had washed down or accumulated over many years.

If anything had washed down from the Appalachians 460 million years ago, it might be found there, in that once-shallow seabed.