Sentence examples for the backwash from inspiring English sources
noun
The backward flow of water from oars or propeller or breaking waves.
That's more difficult in the backwash of Mail opprobrium.
I must write you of what I have seen, the other side, the backwash".
In the backwash process, the direction of flow through the filter is reversed.
"They were present at liftoff and then had to live in the backwash of all that".
Like Alberto, many saw how relatives had been caught in the backwash of change.
A wall of water rises up over the floe, and the backwash flushes the surprised penguins into the sea.
The movie feels like the backwash generated when art becomes the exclusive preserve of the comfortably well-off.
No Olympic Games can entirely escape the backwash of conventional political tensions, and Rio is no exception.
Then the piped-in sound of the river flowing by, the backwash of boats slapping at the gravel shore.
The plane shudders in the backwash of a launching wide-body, then it's our turn, and we are effortlessly airborne.
The city's dead were dispersed erratically, swept inland with the tsunami or dragged out to sea with the backwash.
