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• The novel was awash in plagiarism, with entire passages lifted verbatim.From the entry plagiarism
• The mid-east is awash in petrodollars that need to be invested.From the entry petrodollars
• But, no matter, because the event was awash with a “tsunami of love”.2025 June 21, Jo Ellison, “The Bezos merger we all want a piece of”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times…. From the entry tsunami
• YouTube is awash in gun content, often referred to as “GunTube” by firearm enthusiasts.2023 May 16, “YouTube and Gun Content: A Dangerous Combination for Kids and Teens”, in Everytown Support Fund. From the entry bulletproof
• At the start of the pandemic, the internet was awash with jokes.2022 March 24, Alison Colwell, No Excuses: Turning Around One of Britain's Toughest Schools, Biteback Publishing, page 207. From the entry fatten the curve
• The station would normally be awash with overseas visitors and students.2020 November 18, Paul Bigland, “New infrastructure and new rolling stock”, in RAIL, page 50. From the entry dearth
• At this moment, as you sit quietly reading this book, you are awash in it.2017, Bob Berman, Zapped: From Infrared to X-rays, the Curious History of Invisible Light, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, pages 8-9. From the entry light
• Like a battle-scarred, tempest-tossed warship, with her sails in tatters, her masts broken, and bilges awash, T.2011, James Mellon, The Judge: A Life of Thomas Mellon, Founder of Fortune, Yale University Press, published 2011, →ISBN. From the entry tempest-tossed
• In fact, hate-watching is a byproduct of a spoiled culture, awash in choices and television that aspires to greatness.2013 February 24, Christopher Borrelli, “What does hate-watching mean?”, in Chicago Tribune. From the entry hate-watching
• The popular press is awash in facthoods.2007, Howard Burman, Paradise by Paradise. From the entry facthood
• Buckley was one of the first to use the name as an eponym: “President Clinton was awash with Skutniks.”2001 July 8, William Safire, “On Language”, in New York Times Magazine, The Way We Live Now, page 15. From the entry Skutnik
• "To Cure a Weakling Child, Contour Regard" and "Funny Little Man" are awash with the gremlinesque twittering of childrens' voices.1998, SPIN, volume 14, number 1, page 116. From the entry gremlinesque
• Will its guns lift a rush-hour tailback in a colony that most Britons regard as awash with tax dodgers, drug dealers and right-wing whingers?2013 August 14, Simon Jenkins, The Guardian. From the entry tailback
• The palm trees were bent over almost touching the ground, and the streets were now awash with stalled cars and blown-off rooftops.2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 91. From the entry blown-off
• Democracy is in disrepair, big business alternatingly rents, seeks, or foists cultural rot onto the complacent public, and education is mindnumbingly awash in psychological fads.2001, Mike N. Castle, editor, School Violence: Views of Students & the Community: Congressional Hearings, DIANE Publishing, →ISBN, page 6. From the entry mind-numbingly
• Awash in its fragrance, like a kandhuli fish rippling in a pond and making liquid motifs of rings and bangles, her head grew giddier and her heart beat faster.2015, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Ranjita Biswas, Written in Tears, Harper Perennial, page 1. From the entry kandhuli
• In a world awash in brontobytes of data, cutting your data requirements in half can dramatically reduce the demands that data management is placing upon your business.2014, Christopher Surdak, Data Crush […] , AMACOM, →ISBN, page 174. From the entry brontobyte
• I would lie in bed listening to the tugs hooting; I would wake up to find my painter's great north windows awash with foggy sea light.1996, Alfred Kazin, New York Jew, →ISBN, page 209. From the entry sea light
• Anything that may hinder the proposed landing (e.g., cusps, submerged rocks, partially awash or submerged wrecks, scullies, berm scarps, sandbars, rails, etc.) may be considered an obstacle.1974, US Navy SEAL Combat Manual. From the entry man-made

Meaning of awash

1. adjective Washed by the waves or tide (of a rock or strip of shore, or of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it); covered with water.
2. adjective Covered, overspread (with or in something).

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How do you use awash in a sentence?

Awash is used as an adjective. For example: “The novel was awash in plagiarism, with entire passages lifted verbatim.”

What is a short sentence with awash?

“The popular press is awash in facthoods.”

What does awash mean?

Awash means washed by the waves or tide (of a rock or strip of shore, or of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it); covered with water.