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Use "wash-out" in a sentence
"Seven people—one in Japan and six, including herself, in her local area—paid around $300 each to buy two forms of vitamin B and Centrum, which they took in two-week periods followed by two-week "wash-out" periods with no vitamins at all."
"Gasoline demand, not supply, may prove to be the casualty of Hurricane Irene, which promises a wash-out late summer weekend for 20% of Americans as it makes its way up the East Coast, analysts at J.P. Morgan said in a report."
"Despite the grey – which seemed to have covered everything in a mildew of quiet – late summer had not been a wash-out as usual."