A warm, wet wash of blood sheeted across the right side of her face.

Heavier paper is sometimes preferred over lighter weight or thinner paper because it does not buckle and can hold up to scrubbing and extremely wet washes.

His clothes clung like wet wash to his body.

The bimbo we left done up like a wet wash in the bedroom.

I imagined the old men at their endless games of dominoes, under warm, fat drops of water that fell from wet wash hung out on poles between the plywood shanties.

Incidentally, in 1948 the price for 25 pounds of wet wash was $1.60, picked up soiled at 6 a.m. and delivered clean and extracted later the same day.

Her sails still hung as limply as wet wash from the yards.

"If you leave wet wash in your machine all day," she said, "it comes out with a funny odor."

The motion combines the wringing of wet wash with the sliding of a cork from a wine bottle.

And after that, a battery of Home Laundries for the wet wash, and after that a decent dress shop.