Sentence example with the word 'backwash'

backwash

back stream, backwater, clout, counterflow, force, impact, maelstrom, recoil, regurgitation, stream, up-country, wash

Definition n. the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller

Last update: June 11, 2015


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The last backwash of the movement from the west occurs: a backwash which serves to solve the apparently insuperable diplomatic difficulties and ends the military movement of that period of history.   [Please select]

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They had not the air of the backwash of a conquering army.   [Please select]

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I had seen much of the backwash and the wretched aftermath of war.   [Please select]

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We were starting early to see the opening of the battle and its backwash.   [Please select]

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So huge a splash did the vast rock give, that the sea heaved up and the backwash of the water drove the ship right to the shore.   [Please select]

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If it takes ten men behind the front to put one on the Line, (We all remember the speech that cheers the backwash, anyhow.)   [Please select]

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