How To Use Awash In A Sentence
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This should not be taken to mean that the steel surface must be awash in water; a very thin adsorbed film of water is all that is required.
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The hull was holed in several places and the vessel was awash.
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The country is awash with fine pubs providing social surroundings and ample refreshment for the alcohol-free.
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The room awash with its terrible light; a sky unable to rain.
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I have a sneaking feeling though, that the only people who managed to get tickets at the correct prices were the agencies who now seem to be awash with them.
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The toilet leaks, leaving the bathroom floor awash in slimy water.
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For instance, Matt argues thatThe Democratic Party is awash in secretiveness, and while there have been Kerry emails which explain a bit of polling, one is mostly kept in the dark as to the strategic direction of the campaign.
Sometimes the first thought...
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Nicholas the fish, spread out in all his glory, like a polypod awash, or
Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale
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The political machinery is also awash with cash.
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There is no official list of sponsor companies, and the internet is awash with scammers offering paid access to fake job lists.
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Today's media is awash in advice for business managers, tips on how to command underlings, sway bosses and squeeze a bottom line.
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The rooms are spacious and awash with brocade, satin and crisp white linen, with a decadent fur throw on the bed.
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By the time I discovered the problem, the floor was awash.
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Common sense dictates that most people, awash in their own ignorance, far prefer to lecture than be lectured to.
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Some cabins on the lower decks were awash, giving the clue to the vessel's general lack of seaworthiness.
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The sink had overflowed and the kitchen floor was awash.
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He has five years left at the helm of a government awash with oil revenues.
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It is the highest rally in the series, the undulating roads climbing to more than 2700 metres on hillsides awash with cacti, pine trees and river crossings.
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Sumo rikishi wear a stylized loincloth called a mawashi during their bouts.
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The dialogue is as awash in vulgarity as, well, a middle school playground.
I Have No Hugo Ideas, and I Must Vote!
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The place is awash with arms and with veterans still fit enough to fight.
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Awash with glittering gold, adorned in yellowy brilliance, the jewellery designers cut a new path, defiantly and creatively.
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Yes, knowledge is better than ignorance, but isn't North America awash with sexual information?
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Not the least remarkable thing about the internet is that it is awash with altruism.
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The recent pages of our publications are awash in stories of credit difficulty.
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NORTHUMBERLAND STREET , adjacent to the Eldon Square shopping centre , is awash with people.
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He will take office with the US Government already awash in red ink.
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Two walls of the gallery are covered with her canvases, awash with deep blues and cheerful yellows.
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It's awash with crosssubsidies and free-riders.
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That is the trouble in a country awash with cheap technology: there is always somebody watching you.
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The channel is awash with inane chat.
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Outside the villages, the fields and mountainsides are awash with jasmine, wild lupins, broom, poppies, cornflowers and white wistaria, leading the eye to gentle slopes cloaked in velvety green grass and pockets of dark green forest.
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The Canaries were the nearest bits of dry land to us, but Mr Jellicoe, the third mate, reckoned that they were a good hundred and fifty miles away, and dead to wind'ard; so it was useless for us to think of reaching them in a boat with her gunnels awash, and not a scrap of food or a drop of fresh water in her.
Harry Escombe A Tale of Adventure in Peru
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Mark realized what he was doing and left the chapel awash with confusion.
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This is poor seamanship, as a rock awash off Jones Point is not visible.
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The room awash with its terrible light; a sky unable to rain.
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He will take office with the US Government already awash in red ink.
Times, Sunday Times
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With the culture awash with Barbie doll ideals of beauty, adolescent girls take a hypercritical look at their developing bodies and judge themselves to be too short, too tall, too fat, too busty, too plain, etc.
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However confident you are, meeting your boyfriend or girlfriend's parents for the first time is always awash with tension.
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The playground was awash with them, as were walls, corridors, exercise books and the backs of lower school pupils who could be held down while a pud was chalked onto their jersey.
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This afternoon seemed awash with possibilities and promise.
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This new ski resort opened in 1994 and offers great views of Lake Inawashiro and Mt. Bandai, as well as great facilities and lots of quality runs.
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The next morning there was a last-minute change of plan to avoid arriving back in London while it was awash with May Day demonstrators.
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Floors were reportedly awash with engine oil, and standard safety procedures were said to have been ignored.
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Awash in that destroying beam, Gerrard's sword wilted and fell to the ground in a silvery puddle.
Mercadian Masques
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We're awash in a vomitous sea of caustic humorous comment.
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Like the catalogue of pastoral images that Keats includes in his famous ode, a city building awash in rain has become a perfect place for anyone beset by a melancholy fit to glut her sorrow.
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For about 48 hours in July, Waikiki harbor is awash in mai tais, mimosas, Gatorade, and joy.
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According to a recent PricewaterhouseCoopers report, the global mining sector has been "awash" in merger-and-acquisition announcements this year, setting 2010 on a course to match peak 2007 levels.
Continental Minerals Gets China Offer
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He felt nauseous and depressed, awash on a stormy, bilious sea of confusion, misunderstanding, and despair.
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It is plain as a pikestaff that if exposed to the incredulous view of the Taxpayer, who, by now, has a pretty clear view of some of the potential abuses, the floor of the House of Commons cellars would soon be awash with the blood of MPs caught with their grubby hands in the till.
'Shred & Bury': The New Westminster Watchword
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And now they come to this chamber, bleating, awash with crocodile tears and pretending to be the custodians of free speech - pretending to be the custodians of this institution.
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A minibus taxi overturned on Hospital Bend, where northbound lanes were awash in a river of brown, silt-laden water.
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The channel is awash with inane chat.
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Data from the US yesterday showed an unexpected rise in crude inventories, adding to the sense that the world was awash with oil.
Times, Sunday Times
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There he found Nicholas the fish, spread out in all his glory, like a polypod awash, or a basking turtle, or a well-fed calf of Proteus.
Mary Anerley
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When a book makes a best-seller list it is instantly less interesting to me We are awash in great books, more than we could possibly read
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We saw what we thought a doe fording the torrent, her breast awash in white water.
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The deck was continually awash with the sea which came inboard over the rail and through the scuppers.
Chapter 39
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Zambian courts are always awash with petitions every after election.
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The stage is awash with sparkling color as performers gather for the grand finale.
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Lordy, it was awash with the stuff.
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Bromham was awash with colourful floats and costumes as residents celebrated in the carnival procession on Saturday.
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These rocks are awash at high tide.
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Declared biologically dead in 1957, the Thames is now awash with wildlife, ecologists say.
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Advertisers also point out the hypocrisy of barring sponsored programmes when sports coverage is awash with branding.
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He will take office with the US Government already awash in red ink.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the end of 2000, York was reduced to a sandbag city, hit by unprecedented levels of rain and awash with flood water.
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Though it is good that there is interest in the turtles, the beach is awash with flashlights and flashbulbs, causing considerable disturbance to the turtles.
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The rest of York is awash with shoppers swarming with mad carrier bags in the cold.
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I think of the vast majority of Americans now awash in the virus of affluency, an 'affluenza' of sorts, a toxicity of wealth wherein obesity, diabetes, and chronic illnesses abound.
Rejecting Willful Ignorance
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The association's conference hall was awash with plummy accents and tweed jackets.
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It's almost dark and the sky is already awash with stars, when a row of crooked rooftops comes into view.
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He steps outside and heads into town and the streets are awash with frustrated fans.
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Meanwhile chimps and humans are awash in it.
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Private security analysts observe the mansion is still very vulnerable to attack in a country awash with guns.
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Cartwright Hall - one of Bradford's most magnificent venues for weddings - will soon be awash with all things matrimonial.
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Beneath the dead trees, the forest floor is awash in fresh grasses and sporadic thick blooms of lupine, arnica, penstemon, and other wild flowers.
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The cutwater crushed, the bowsprit sundered, decks awash with blood.
DANCING ON AIR
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They are reckoned to be the craziest in a city awash with yellow lines.
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The airwaves may be awash with treacly DJs, nerve-shredding jingles and the kind of yammering advertisements that deserve their very own circle in Hell, but no one thinks radio is an affront to Western civilisation as a result.
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But it wouldn't hurt to throw in at least a sentence noting that despite modern societies being "awash" in chemicals, childhood cancer rates aren't showing much change and overall mortality rates continue their long-term decline.
NYT > Home Page
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My ears flamed, my small dark hostile eyes were awash.
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The lyrics are awash with religious imagery.
The Sun
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I return, solo, to my villa to find it dimmed, lit with tiny candles and aromatic oil lamps, a bottle of chilled wine waiting and massage oils just beside my bed whose satin sheets are awash with blossoms.
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Soon enough he was inside, awash in cool dim light from above.
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The world is awash with capital seeking to back infrastructure work like this.
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By the time I discovered the problem, the floor was awash.
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The pallid ray of light illumed the car interior awash in a murky tide.
Sonnet of the Sphinx
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The gaslit sidewalk and Vincent tilted, then shifted, peeling away to reveal a concrete floor awash in water.
Etched in Bone
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This is why Bombay is awash in new malls and cinema multiplexes and so forth, all of which generate jobs.
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Still awash in relief at leaving behind the murky realm of differing ideologies, Anne giggled nervously.
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My favourite memory of a tall ship is standing at the helm of the Lord Nelson under full sail, feeling her heel over in a stiff breeze until her port deck was awash.
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In other bouts, the rikishi may grapple in an attempt to get a good grip on the mawashi and then launch a throw.
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Edinburgh is awash with restaurants, some good - some not so good.
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Big companies are awash with cash that investors are telling them to spend.
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Kennedy skillfully evokes the atmosphere of an edgy defeated Germany and that of a victorious Britain awash in disappointment and disillusion, but she is at her best when conveying the turmoil inside her protagonist’s mind.
Cover to Cover
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'A dead body in pyjama trousers in a wrecked flat awash with blood and boak, and a huge jobbie on the manteipiece for garnish. '
Quite Ugly One Morning
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We are awash with hedge funds while we are starved of early stage and growth investment.
Times, Sunday Times
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The yacht lay alongside the pier at a sharp cant, its left side decks awash with water.
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A lush island, Tobago is awash with colour, from the orchids, heliconia and hibiscus tumbling over garden walls to the fruit orchards and cocoa plantations of the interior.
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No longer awash with big-boy bravado, they have crumpled into sobbing heaps.
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He felt nauseous and depressed, awash on a stormy, bilious sea of confusion, misunderstanding, and despair.
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I like the idea of dark banking transactions taking place in towns like Miltown Malbay, awash with transnational avarice.
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It knows that a modern audience, filled with pessimistic ironists who think the world is not dark enough won't cotton to a true James Brown experience awash in love and understanding.
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Their streets were grimy and gritty, awash in alcohol and laced with drugs.
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In Ethiopia the concept of tombs has been traced back 3,700 years with the discovery of a stone necropolis in the south-eastern area of Awash Chercher.
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People are buying them to be able to say that they are awash with money.
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Her eyes, wide and dark, were turbulent, awash with emotions.
ALL ABOUT LOVE
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The decade of the Sixties was a time, in short, when the old foundations of national confidence, patriotic idealism, moral traditionalism, and even of historic Judaeo-Christian theism, were awash.
American Grace
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Not long ago I stepped off the overnight sleeper on to the platform at Nice to be revived by a delicious fragrance: the platform was awash with wallflowers.
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A rabbi - whom I immediately felt sorry for - was 'awash in paradoxicality', which apparently proved that 'cognitive dissonance is good for intractable conflicts'.
Archive 2005-05-01
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It had been an absolutely beautiful day: cloudless, warm and awash with the scent of blossom.
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During the Silver Jubilee, Britain was awash with red, white and blue and York made sure it didn't miss out on the knees-up.
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Wimbledon has literally been awash with interruptions in its final week.
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The old place, awash with memories, is now hosting its last season before the club moves to its huge new stadium at nearby Ashburton Grove.
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With decks awash with diesel we beat a hasty retreat back to Lerwick.
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WASHINGTON - Landscape designer Jane MacLeish, a friend of mine, theorizes that Washington is awash in azaleas this week because the word "azaleas" is a lot easier to pronounce than, say, "Corylopsis pauciflora.
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The gutters were awash with dirty soot-flecked water, rushing down the storm-drain.
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6. The Gardens here at Kew are looking lovey - the Mediterranean Garden is a mass of cistus and phlomis and my beloved Spartium juncium, and awash in sweet and resinous incense-y scents.
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On the extreme contrary, today's Department of Defense leadership is awash with a tsunami of fundamentalist Christian religious predators, literally 'hellbent' on using the draconian spectre of military command influence not only to unconstitutionally force helpless subordinate service men and women to accept their own biblical worldview, but to turn their subordinates into religious predators themselves.
Chris Rodda: Gen. Schwarzkopf: If You're Not Too Busy, Could You Please Come Back and Knock Some Heads Around?
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One of the reasons why football is pilloried and satirised on comedy shows is that it is awash with cliches and inconsequential chat.
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He worked only part-time, an elevator operator, because the country was awash in college graduates.
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Our society is drowning in a sea of alcohol; every celebration or commiseration is awash with it.
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The streets are awash with gangs of youths and people who look like they have not bathed in weeks.
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Her chin was awash with saliva and blood; she inadvertently drooled a thick cord into the quivering maw.
MINUTES TO BURN
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The words rang cold though they floated awash and welcoming in Tukar'ramin's warm sea.
Tides Of Light
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The room is a beehive, awash with noise.
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They did, and his end-of-tour report was not awash with praise.
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Every investment bank in the City is said to be awash with potential deals, which is sparking guessing games as to who will fall on to the auction block next.
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[Palin] stands for a genuine movement: a dwindling white nonurban America that is aflame with grievances and awash in self-pity as the country hurtles into the 21st century and leaves it behind," New York Times 7/11/09
Patrick Sauer: An Interview With Nick Reding, Author of Methland
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Ireland is in fact awash with tax reliefs and incentives.
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The toilet leaks, leaving the bathroom floor awash in slimy water.
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It was as though we were negotiating some oversized, sinuous arroyo in Utah's Canyonlands, awash with dry waterfalls down which we had to climb, jamming hands into cracks and levering weight on small footholds in free-climbing maneuvers, as the infamous canyoneer Aron Ralston did in the minutes before he fell, became trapped by a boulder, and after 127 hours, self-amputated his arm.
Richard Bangs: Climbing the Killer Prince -- Merapi Volcano of Java, Part 2
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The congressional group's report said China is 'awash' in pirated goods.
U.S. lawmakers target six top copyright piracy countries
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When we see our politicians acting in such a puerile and childish manner is it any wonder the country is awash with apathy and cynicism?
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In a film genre simply awash with studio backlots and blue screen trickery, this film has its own distinctive look.
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The Japanese call it nemawashi nimah-wash-ee, a word drawn from the practice of bonzai, and which means “preparing to plant.”
The Elegant Solution
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Featuring walk-ons from Frank Zappa and Dennis Hopper, the film is also awash with fantastic music.
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INDIANAPOLIS - It's not unusual to see downtown Indianapolis awash in blue, hosting a sea of sports fans.
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In a world awash with money, couture frocks are once again finding their place.
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The American and Canadian mountains gradually grew awash with stories of Sasquatch appearances; there were even reports of gangs of strange creatures attacking people in the forests.
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Canada to a beautiful winery in British Columbia, her journey is awash in memories of family and childhood, especially those of her younger sister,
The Moment Between by Nicole Baart: Book summary
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In his vocabulary was no word for “crocodile”; yet in his thought, as potent as any utterable word, was an image of dreadful import — an image of a log awash that was not a log and that was alive, that could swim upon the surface, under the surface, and haul out across the dry land, that was huge-toothed, mighty-mawed, and certain death to a swimming dog.
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Aquarium's plans to expand are awash in park board bafflegab.
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That afternoon the sidewalks were awash with slush and half-melted snow.
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The streets of our town and cities are awash with drunks who readily turn violent - that's if they are not busy vomiting all over the place or relieving themselves in shop doorways.
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In a world awash with information, insight is often in short supply.
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Today, the market is awash with seasonal greens, wild mushrooms, Melton Mowbray pork pies, smoked eels, fresh shellfish, potted shrimps, cider, venison and wild boar.
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We are awash with a dozen kids all wanting to be bottle fed 3 times a day, new goats to milk, goats still waiting to kid and everything bored stiff and fed up standing in their pens day after day.
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This is an offer unique in a world awash with religions.
Christianity Today
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Wellington is awash in curry houses, thus they tend to offer specials to entice you to eat there.
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The ship's deck was awash in the storm.
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On dark winter nights when I turned the key in the vestry door, I entered a spiritual time-machine, awash with ghosts from a century of christenings, weddings, funerals, harvests and carol services.
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The bathroom floor was awash.
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Thanks in part to the Internet, the world is awash in data, the great majority of which is unformatted and housed in disparate, often inaccessible locations.
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Newspapers and radio call-in shows were awash with the rage of people who spared little thought for the judge's legal and scientific hair-splitting.
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Watch the rock awash off the southern point and anchor in 20/30Ft of water.
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Today a field awash with yellow corn marigold, mauve corncockle and white daisies is largely a historical memory.
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the main deck was afloat (or awash)
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The room awash with its terrible light; a sky unable to rain.
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The village is awash with history, legends and local charm.
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The race is awash with talk of how the organizers set out to make things difficult for the skiers this year, with so many uphills and technical approaches to the finish lines this year.
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New York is, like most other places, awash with large-scale millennial survey shows.
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The degree to which our starch is awash is exhibited in the behaviour of so many of our captives, but especially in these two.
Who Is This Asswipe David Warren Anyway?
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A country in which owning a fax machine required security clearance suddenly found itself awash with mobile telephones and internet connections.
The Tribes Triumphant
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Personally, I have my doubts and I look forward to the day when operations start and the roads become awash with orphaned bins dumped anywhere because the dustmen won't have time to be tidy.
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The financial system is awash with cash looking for a home.
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Her eyes, wide and dark, were turbulent, awash with emotions.
ALL ABOUT LOVE
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A country in which owning a fax machine required security clearance suddenly found itself awash with mobile telephones and internet connections.
The Tribes Triumphant
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Having moved from pariah to western friend, it was awash with new American oilmen making big bucks and contractors building the first western hotels.
Letters: West's hypocrisy over Arab countries
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Even a relatively small leak in the pipelines that carry oil and gas from offshore rigs to onshore facilities could leave hundreds of miles of coastline on Alaska's North Slope awash in oil.
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When we see our politicians acting in such a puerile and childish manner is it any wonder the country is awash with apathy and cynicism?
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Dealing floors were awash with reports that the bank's management had succeeded in conveying an upbeat assessment of the bank's prospects.
Times, Sunday Times
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When running "awash" -- that is, with a small part of their upper works above water, they are driven by a gasoline engine at a speed of over 10 miles an hour.
How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900
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My brain remains resolutely awash with the ineluctable fact of Anna's confession.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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But today shop shelves are awash with mini antibacterial gel pumps as increasing numbers of us refuse to leave the house without one.
The Sun
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I used to feel kind of awash in fake-standards, but now, I feel very good about the tools that are out there, waiting to be used for creating records for born-digital items.
Archive 2007-12-01
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Bangkok's so awash in quality victuals, it's tough to stand out from the pack.
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Data from the US yesterday showed an unexpected rise in crude inventories, adding to the sense that the world was awash with oil.
Times, Sunday Times
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The place was awash with yellow anoraks, smelly oxters and hairy legs.
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The world is awash with money as everyone looks to make a decent return at a time of low interest rates and low inflation.
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The city is awash with stunning architecture, museums and art galleries and has a painterly quality that takes your breath away.
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As well being politically aware, their music is awash with anthemic, post-punk rhythmic bursts.
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Well happily the internet and the gossip magazines are awash with ideas.
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And certainly there is enough gralloching, skinning and exposure of internal organs to keep a medium-sized butcher's premises awash with blood.
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Again, right now the world is awash in cheap money.
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I think all my books are embarrassingly awash with sentimentality and emotion.
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How can it come to this in a game awash with cash?
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The yacht lay alongside the pier at a sharp cant, its left side decks awash with water.
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When the title launched in September last year, its Amazon. com catalogue listing was awash with one-star user-reviews complaining about its SecuROM technology. filed a class action lawsuit against EA over alleged issues encountered with Spore's DRM software, SecuROM.
Edge Online - Interactive Entertainment Today
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Our cities are awash in cars, so much so that we take their intrusions for granted - noise, dirt, smell and cost.
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The country was awash in weapons.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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I have lot of respect for Ron Mader so please don´t take this wrong as we live in San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas and Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca among friends whenever we choose to do so but this "Responsible Tourism" movement, while certainly commendable on the surface is awash in words more important than results in my judgment.
Tourism as The White Man�s Burden
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The sink had overflowed and the kitchen floor was awash.
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The platform, we were told, was awash with horrid chemicals which would pollute vast areas of the pristine ocean.
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As the ash settles, the world is awash with advice for those whose holidays were ruined by volcanic activity and government ineptitude.
Times, Sunday Times
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We are awash with hedge funds while we are starved of early stage and growth investment.
Times, Sunday Times
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Everything would be awash in pale yellow-green with cattails on the alders, and the maples trailing green seed plumes.