How to Use awash in a Sentence

awash

adjective
  • The deck of the boat was almost awash.
  • For months of the year, the town was awash in fruit and cider.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 May 2024
  • By the end of the novel, the chateau is awash in blood and body parts.
    — WIRED, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The surface was awash with dead flies and bits of grass.
    — Graydon Carter, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Yes, the menus are bound in plastic in the 250-seat dining room, awash in red booths.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2024
  • This year’s best-of TV lists are awash with the language of comfort.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 27 Dec. 2020
  • The Spurs are awash in guards in the range of 6-4 and 6-5, and George would only add to their collection.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Jan. 2023
  • With the floodgates now open, expect the U.K. charts to be awash with Christmas cuts in the weeks ahead.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The stage was awash in red, black and white glittering lights.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 16 July 2022
  • The region was awash in warnings about the great earthquake to come.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 27 June 2024
  • The standard pool should be favorite-heavy, and the bonus-point pool should be awash with long shots.
    — Victor Mather, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2023
  • But that doesn’t mean the industry will be awash in huge ships.
    — Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The second idea was that the world was awash in fossil fuels.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2022
  • The 2022 World Cup, the first to be held in the Middle East, has been awash in controversy from the start.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The forest opens, and the jungle floor is awash with tent poles, children, makeshift pots and stoves.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 15 Apr. 2023
  • TikTok is awash with The White Lotus ski lodge dream casts.
    — Vulture, 28 Mar. 2023
  • And all of this is happening while the country is awash with weapons.
    — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 19 May 2022
  • The interior is awash in shades of azure and ivory that mirror the soothing blues and whites of the sea and sand.
    — Dana Givens, Robb Report, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Throughout, the rooms are awash with soft pastel hues like rusty pink, dusty blue, and earthy green.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 6 Feb. 2025
  • The hemlock, maple, oak, beech and tulip trees are awash in crimson, orange and gold.
    — John Pana, cleveland, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Sydney was awash in green and gold, and the wave of wattle is looking to wash over the rest of the country in the coming weeks.
    — Rachel Yabsley, Vogue, 1 Aug. 2023
  • When Churchill Downs is awash in ladies and gents wearing shades of pink to the Kentucky Oaks, this hat is sure to stand out.
    — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 15 Apr. 2022
  • But at least for that night, Milwaukee was awash in good vibes.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2020
  • On that May evening in 2018, the council chamber here was awash in color.
    — Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2021
  • The stand-up circuit was awash in cocaine and testosterone.
    — David Peisner, Vulture, 21 May 2021
  • The whole show is awash in good spirits, fun and frivolity.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 29 May 2024
  • An extension of the bourgeois trend, the Fall 2019 runways were awash in beige, taupe, and camel.
    — Emily Farra, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2019
  • That was when the A’s were awash in star power, winning World Series by the fistful.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2023
  • This place is so awash in hyper-powered junk that the beaver could readily be replaced as the state animal by the tweaker.
    — Matt Thompson, SPIN, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Deli Boys is awash with clever references like that, especially to The Godfather.
    — Isha Sharma, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2025

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