"So the companies have been able to wash their hands of the matter."

Some have been known to wash first and ask questions later.

"I do nothing from here but run to the rest room and wash my hands."

On the third day, I got up early to wash my hair before work time.

Or perhaps you're going to wash your hands of the whole business?

I used some of the water to wash my face at half time.

He turned on the water and began to wash his hands.

Enough to wash your hands in, as her mother would say.

If he wanted to wash them who was I to stop him?

Still, he was able to wash himself for the first time in weeks.

He got up and left the room to wash his hands.

"I thought at some point in time you might want to wash your face."

They told us to wash up and come with them.

Finally, remember to wash your hands before and after making each test.

He could wash out right here, before ever getting started.

But he still felt a need to wash his hands.

You always had to wash up after coming in from outside.

I needed to wash her before anyone else came up.

I looked around, but saw no place to wash or other.

I took the time to wash my face and change.

After five days, they were given water to wash themselves.

You have to wash your feet several times a day, no matter what.

When I wash them with water they'll be all right.

I'd keep my back to him until he came out to wash his hands.

She was still trying to wash them all the way down.

Both of you, go wash and be back here in three minutes.

But a few hours later I got water and had my wash.

Running a car wash was probably the most difficult job I ever had in my life.

I wanted to be good to her and asked if she would like to have a wash.

Any second now the others would come back up the wash or out of the house.

In other words, that can go right out with the wash.

Win 3 out of 4 and the season has been a wash.

Well we just hope it'll all come out in the wash!

After that she saw to the fire and he had a wash.

One day on the river and she already felt the need of a big wash.

She felt a deep feeling of cold wash over her.

After half an hour in that room, most people wanted a wash.

It was the only thing that ever got a wash.

And it would be so good to have a long hot wash.

You just want to hand this baby over and wash.

Time enough for that to come out in the wash, or whatever.

His face was little more than a wash of skin and dark hair.

The young man worked in a car wash and helped her out with money for the children.

"I always say that it looks to me like a car wash."

"But you hope it will come out in the wash."

Even if she could have won Wash over that would now make no difference.

You know it's all going to come out in the wash eventually.

Maybe you better go in the wash room an' clean up your face.

This is a great mind wash, and the people are interesting.

You should be able to pick up our wash even though it is dark.

"Do you know how many washings it had gone through?"

At the end of the study, enough soap for 12 hand washings was being used over 24 hours.

Examples include: Washing, or checking that something has been done.

After a few washings, the flour is ready to be used in cooking.

It will remain effective through several washings, the physicians wrote.

One treatment retains its protective value through about 20 washings.

They retain their protective properties through at least 100 washings.

Between 15 and 20 washings should soften up new linens.

"One application will help to soften hands, even through several hand washings.

These hand washings can be ritualized and follow a pattern.

But daily washings resulted in some distress for the rider.

The inside of each glove was washed, and the washings were sent to a laboratory.

And then she used to take in all her washings, her babies was growing up.

A large one takes away neat chemical and washings.

Everyone will expect me to wear shirts for several days between washings."

Washing of hands after touching uncooked food when preparing meals.

It never needed paint, and periodic washings restored its appearance.

Thus, each fabric can undergo up to 20 washings.

"These will stand up to 40 washings," she promises.

On "Washing Machine," the band tries to piece the music together again.

But complying with these recommendations could mean dozens to hundreds of hand washings a day.

There was a water well and basin near the entryway for ritual washings.

This was known in the media as the Washing Machine War.

He also used washings and gymnastics as a therapy.

But cloth diapers require repeated washings, which use lots of water and energy.

Both of you, go wash and be back here in three minutes.

But a few hours later I got water and had my wash.

Running a car wash was probably the most difficult job I ever had in my life.

I wanted to be good to her and asked if she would like to have a wash.

Any second now the others would come back up the wash or out of the house.

In other words, that can go right out with the wash.

Win 3 out of 4 and the season has been a wash.

Well we just hope it'll all come out in the wash!

After that she saw to the fire and he had a wash.

One day on the river and she already felt the need of a big wash.

She felt a deep feeling of cold wash over her.

After half an hour in that room, most people wanted a wash.

It was the only thing that ever got a wash.

And it would be so good to have a long hot wash.

You just want to hand this baby over and wash.

Time enough for that to come out in the wash, or whatever.

His face was little more than a wash of skin and dark hair.

The young man worked in a car wash and helped her out with money for the children.

"I always say that it looks to me like a car wash."

"But you hope it will come out in the wash."

Even if she could have won Wash over that would now make no difference.

You know it's all going to come out in the wash eventually.

Maybe you better go in the wash room an' clean up your face.

This is a great mind wash, and the people are interesting.

You should be able to pick up our wash even though it is dark.

Any second now the others would come back up the wash or out of the house.

In other words, that can go right out with the wash.

And then I usually have to do the washing up as well.

She had been about to help her with the washing.

Well we just hope it'll all come out in the wash!

He looks like he's a man who wants to get on with the washing up.

You can do that while I put the washing out.

Time enough for that to come out in the wash, or whatever.

For by this time I was the one who had to do most of the washing.

"But you hope it will come out in the wash."

You know it's all going to come out in the wash eventually.

Maybe you better go in the wash room an' clean up your face.

The stone itself was dark with the wash of her blood.

Someone still has to be there to put the washing in then take it out.

The only sound was the wash of the air past the van.

But remember, if there's any water at all in the wash, you stay out of it.

They got in my hair as I hung up the wash.

"Just run along home, and start the wash for a change."

Who's going to take the washing home to my customers every week?

My mother was still doing the wash with a rub board.

May I suggest we 21 follow the wash to the north?

Have a rest and leave the washing up till later.

He made the coffee and helped with the washing up.

This can be done when the wash is still wet.

Take the washing machine, he said, but leave me the car.

One ought to get up in the morning and wash oneself and be a decent social being.

Ablution or performing one's ablutions is the act of washing oneself, in particular:

Use of a reflexive verb: митися (to wash oneself or in French se laver)

Examples with "wash oneself":

Some transitive verbs can take on a reflexive meaning, such as lavar (to wash) and lavarse (to wash oneself).

yıkan- "wash oneself",

The act of washing oneself in this obsessive way serves to focus the mind and prepare the spirit; one is washing away external preoccupation, sloughing petty distraction, just as surely as one scrubs away germs and dead skin.

A characteristic of the temascal is that it can have religious connotations, as in the North American sweatlodge and represents the womb, the elements, and a microcosm of the earth, although in less traditional communities its main purpose is simply for washing oneself.

In Spanish, for example, the particle se is cliticized to the verb (lavarse "to wash oneself"), while in Romanian, the particle precedes the verb (a se spăla "to wash oneself").