Example sentences for: awash

How can you use “awash” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Andros is awash with fresh water, which is put to good use: over 6 million gallons are pumped into tankers each day and shipped across to New Providence, where fresh water is much in demand.

  • Does anyone think it was over-17s who bought $162 million worth of tickets to The Matrix ?) The town was awash in rumors of imminent subpoenas, and talk of Democratic Sen.

  • The LAT for instance, tells its readers that, "awash in fireworks and fired-up patriotism, China celebrates the end of 156 years of 'national disgrace,' regaining a tiny patch of land ceded after a humiliating war and eyed enviously for a century," while the NYT can't keep to itself about the police band members at the ceremonies in their "snow white tunics" and the attendance there "of representatives of each of the territory's services, from the Correctional Services Department to the Auxiliary Medical Service."

  • "My campaign theme is to try to reform the system that is now awash with money and the influence of special interests," he argued on Fox News Sunday . Brit Hume's retort--"that this whole process isn't quite pure enough for you"--played right into McCain's hands.

  • Warlords control much of the country beyond Kabul, and the land is awash in weapons.


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