Sentence examples for were washed back from inspiring English sources

This is a warts-and-all elegy, a fascinating portrait of a gang who hooked up in their youth, achieved a measure of greatness without quite realising what they'd done and then were washed back together again; older and wiser but still with enough piss and vinegar in their systems to still feel aggrieved at the way they somehow let it slide.

The river was lit by fires, and those who had gone into it were washing back against the bank where the tiger stood.

The cooking is meant to be washed back with booze; a handsome cocktail bar obliges.

The stuff that's removed is washed back to a pipe that discharges into the ocean.

As the smelly air passes through the scrubber stack, the bacteria convert the sulfide to sulfate, which is washed back into the sewage stream.

They say it is a waste of time and money, because not all the shingle is washed back to its original location.

But Shah and his volunteers hope to make a difference by collecting as much plastic as possible while it's still on the shore, before it can be washed back out to sea.

The fear was that the storm would wash the oil back out to sea and contaminate the water or that the oil would be washed back up onto the beach over an even wider area, said Cindy Zipf, director of Clean Ocean Action, an environmental group based at Sandy Hook.

Having set sail from Tripoli in the dead of night, the dinghy – which was packed with 72 African migrants attempting to reach Europe – ran into trouble and was left floating with the currents for two weeks before being washed back up on to Libyan shores.

"Even if these birds get to shore, very often it's the case that they're washed back out to sea by the enormous waves that are coming in.

There it decays through several more steps to polonium-210, much of which, during its 138-day half-life, is washed back down to the Earth's surface, thus entering the biosphere, before finally decaying to stable lead-206.