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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "backwash" in a sentence

    backwash example sentences

    backwash


    1. Dawn watched in confusion as the helicopter climbed fast, beating her body with its backwash


    2. The pilot reversed the engines and a backwash of black


    3. Backwash: water thrown aft by turning of a ship"s propeller


    4. shapes faintly lit by the backwash of the billboard lights


    5. “Clean the drains to all the appliances with the drain cleaner, not just the bath, because they all run into the same system and there may be backwash in the pipes


    6. Anton Clegg had been the obvious target and victim, with his little friend Bates caught in the backwash


    7. She was blinded by a backwash of water and it took a moment before she could see the results of her rescue efforts


    8. • Possibility of external regeneration (backwash) of the resin without interrupting production


    9. "The backwash from the 747 caused the C-130 to shake in its wake


    10. And then he saw the tall figure of a man striding up out of the waves, out of the foamy backwash of the sea itself

    11. when a certain series of swells came through, and with the backwash at its optimum, an


    12. With this backwash of wounded bearing conflicting reports and the increase of


    13. There was a contest in every Baptist basement and Catholic backwash in the land


    14. Before you'd say Uncle Einar Has Green Wings he roared low across the farmland from his house, trailing the line of clothes in a vast fluttering loop behind, drying them in the pounding concussion and backwash from his wings!


    15. Sim caught the terrific backwash of emotion from both their conflicting minds


    16. Before you'd say Uncle Einar Has Green Wings he sailed low across his farmland, trailing the clothes in a vast fluttering loop through the pounding concussion and backwash of his wings!


    17. The children fell flat in the backwash! "I have it, I have it! I'm free again! Fire in the flue! Feather on the wind! Brunilla!" Einar called to the house


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    Synonyms for "backwash"

    backwash wake aftermath airstream race slipstream wash

    "backwash" definitions

    the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller


    the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event)


    the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward