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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
plash .
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Examples
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And "Line," with its hints of Balinese gamelan music, evokes a storm gathering over the desert, complete with birdlike cries of soprano sax and plashes of cymbal that conjure images of earthbound creatures scurrying for cover.
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The engine was throbbing low, and the plashes and gurgles were almost languid.
The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007
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The engine was throbbing low, and the plashes and gurgles were almost languid.
The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007
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The valley began to run in plashes of water, and Dakhil-Allah urged us across it quickly.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003
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Scarcely thus the envoys, when a diverse murmur ran through the troubled lips of the Ausonians; even as, when rocks delay some running river, it plashes in the barred pool, and the banks murmur nigh to the babbling wave.
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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The water which plashes against the stone pier is the greenest, purest, most translucent ever seen.
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Dimmed and blurred with heavy plashes of the fast descending rain,
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A fitful storm was brewing, and between the plashes of rain on the windows there was the silence of death.
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Size large, -- the weight varying from six to twenty-five pounds; neck large and solid; seed-end of medium size, and usually smooth; skin thin, very pale-green or light cream-white, diversified with lengthwise stripes and plashes of bright green, -- the colors becoming gradually softer and paler after gathering; flesh bright orange, and, like that of the common Winter
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In the centre of the room, a white-marble Egeria, carved by Thorwaldsen, throws up between her hands a shaft of cold crystal water, pure as truth, which spreads into a silvery veil all around her, and plashes down in a snowy basin: no place could be more inviting for a bath.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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