27 examples of wash-out in sentences

His eyes rolled, his teeth chattered, his frame contracted in a strong convulsion, and the black of his complexion had faded to a washed-out dirty grey, revolting to contemplate.

But most of the pioneer miners are sleeping now, their wild day done, while the few survivors linger languidly in the washed-out gulches or sleepy village like harried bees around the ruins of their hive.

Beneath the washed-out blue shirtwaist dress her chest was high, as if vocal.

After the rain of early summer, wash-outs that undermine the track are numerous and the express had been delayed.

Wash-outs are pretty numerous on this piece of line.

"They want him for embezzlement and will soon get on his trail, but the wash-out's broke the wires and I reckon he'll cross the frontier ahead.

He held it out with his queer washed-out smile, and Steinmetz smiled.

Prettyyes, in a spindlin', pink an' white soon-washed-out pattern, but without backbone.

A heavy rain-storm had just taken place, and my brother insisted that Johnnie was the right man to fill up the "wash-outs" in and about the corrals.

You, if I may remind you without wounding your feelings, fell into the error of mucking about with psychology in connection with this Fink-Nottle, and the result was a wash-out.

Whatever may be the explanation of the mystery, the man who can witness what you and I have witnessed, and pronounce it the trick of that incapable, washed-out woman, is either a liar or a fool.

Experience was a mosaic, of which the stones were the detached sensations, and their washed-out copies, the ideas.

If anything like this were hidden beneath the pale, bleared eyes, and dull, washed-out-looking face, no one had ever taken the trouble to read its faint signs: not the half-clothed furnace-tender, Wolfe, certainly.

" She rewarded that with a washed-out smile.

When the ground was full of holes and wash-outs, so that running was dangerous, I used to put on a big timber wolf's skin, which I carried for the purpose, tying it at my neck and waist, and then to sneak up to the buffalo.

It was dark when again they mounted, and the old river road, full of wash-outs, stumps and roots, made going slow after the moon had sunk.

It was a wash-out, though; too absurd.

As for Alianora's wanting to take Manuel as a lover, Dame Niafer found the idea mildly amusing, and very nicely indicative of those washed-out, yellow-haired women's intelligence.

Past Avion through the red-roofed town There at our feet our white line runs; Fresnoy's defences, smoking brown, Shudder beneath our shattering guns; Pop-pop!and Archie's puffs have blurred Some craft engaged to search the Bosch out I hold my breath until the bird Signals a wash-out.

The mist is down on an oily stretch of washed-out sea; through the mist the bats-wings of a sealing schooner are just indicated.

What water we found was in small pools in the wash-out places near the foothills at the edge of the valley, probably running down the ravines after some storm.

" "The one with weak, washed-out gray eyes?"

Defects in roads, to which mishaps may be fairly attributed, are only those unlooked for conditions which make trouble for all other vehicles, such as wash-outs, pit-holes, weak culverts, broken bridges,in short, conditions which require repairs to restore the road to normal condition.

So when this winter's evening came to a lazy town bedded in the hills that skirt Western Virginia close by the Ohio, it found that the December air, fiercely as it blew the snow-clouds about the hill-tops, was instinct with a vigorous, frosty life, and that the sky above the clouds was not wan and washed-out, as farther North, but massive, holding yet a sensuous yellow languor, the glow of unforgotten autumn days.

You may see poor little feeble washed-out rags, children of a noble stock, suffering morally and physically, throughout their useless, degenerate lives, and yet people who are going to marry and to bring more such into the world, will consult nothing but their own convenience as to where they are to live, or how they are to live.

27 examples of  wash-out  in sentences