Crossword-Solution: WASHOUTS
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| Non-cutters? | 1 answer |
| Utter failures | 1 answer |
| Failures: Slang. | 2 answers |
| Failures | 7 answers |
| Duds | 20 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EREAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WASHOUTS (5)
Tell her about the railroad accidents and 'washouts' and the latest thing in lynching." The young people stretched out in long wicker chairs in the shade of a tree covered with purple flowers.
Time and again his escort had to lift the General from his horse and carry him across dangerous washouts and unaffordable streams, but at the earliest possible moment they were always ordered to swing him into the saddle again.
Meanwhile Campbell rapidly talked about masonry, road-beds, washouts, and other things that Neale heard but did not clearly understand.
Suppose that limitless raging green wall down there rose another ten--another twenty--feet, swept deep and roaring and resistless over little Quaker Bridge, plunged them all for a few struggling, hopeless moments into its emerald depths, and then washed the little loosely drifting bodies that had been men and women far out to sea again? What could one do? No trains came into Quaker Bridge to-day; it was understood that there were washouts all along the line.
Yet another shows the effect of one of the washouts, destroying an arable mountain side, these washouts being due to the removal of all vegetation; yet in this photograph the foreground shows that reforestation is still a possibility in places.
Quotes with WASHOUTS (2)
It had been my father's way to remove obstructions, to repair washouts in old trails, to leave each trail better than he had found it. "Tread lightly on the paths," he had told me. "Others will come when you have gone." That was how I would remember my father. There was never a place he walked that was not the better for his having passed. For every tree he cut down he planted two.
I'm tired of playing people who are complete washouts and bums. I don't mind waiting for the good ones to come along. It's like age. It's never bothered me. I've even forgot my birthday. Many times I've wondered if I should tell my real age, but now I think it's an honor, to be doing what I'm doing now at my age.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1965–2014).