The porch light contributed a soft wash of yellow that blended with the shadows at the edge of the yard.

Only the distant, soft wash of waves far away reached them.

Then she heard the soft wash of white noise getting louder ahead of her.

Ten miles away, Government soldiers are playing cards by the soft wash of the Caribbean coast or standing a loose watch behind sandbagged gun positions.

A soft wash of pride swept over her, pride born of love.

There was a soft cool wash of breeze coming steadily out of the east and he used it skilfully.

Bourne looked above at the wall and the soft wash of colored lights.

Most of the styles glow under the soft wash of prints that are never precisely matched.

The result wasn't a soft wash, but a toughness.

"Coral Island," for example, is an etched linear design of interwoven plant forms set into a soft blue wash, literally like an island.