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Washboard
"Washboard" in a Sentence (15 examples)
If I learn to play the washboard and you learn to play the kazoo, maybe we can join a jug band.
Mary washes her laundry by hand on a washboard.
Sami's ribs were like a washboard.
Tom has washboard abs.
"Washboard abs" sounds better than "clearly-defined rectus abdominis muscles".
washboard road
It's a rough trip no matter how you come, for these washboard roads will loosen up even brandnew cars pretty fast; and hitchhikers always find the going bad.
Franklin is beside himself, revving up the engine in the pickup. As I jump in, he spins out and takes off up the road in the direction the plane came from, bouncing dangerously over washboards and ruts.
Doug came up with a half-guilty smile and washboarded his forehead at her.
The rip that was generated by each change of tide had scoured the bottom white and washboarded the sand where it was still layered over the hardpan coral floor.
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The low bass brruummmp of 20-mm slugs going out washboarded the bulkheads.
She drove as fast as she dared, braking for the frost heaves that washboarded the blacktop and on her dirt road, bouncing in and out of the clay ruts cut by the flow of runoff.
It's almost as if the urge to washboard is intrinsically human.
Individual bees have been observed washboarding on the inside glass of an observation hive.
This behaviour is believed to be associated with general cleaning activities but under what circumstances workers washboard is not known.
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