How to Use car wash in a Sentence

car wash

noun
  • Touch a Truck’’ event at Coral Gate Park just east of the car wash.
    Johnny Diaz, sun-sentinel.com, 23 July 2019
  • The massive travel stop includes a deli, coffee shop, car wash, specialty food and gifts, and more.
    Birmingham Magazine, al, 4 Sep. 2019
  • The thieves also took the pressure washer Basco used for his mobile car wash business.
    Fox News, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Police in Garland, Texas, said a 9-month-old girl was found dead inside her father's van at a car wash on the same day.
    Kristin Lam, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Shortly thereafter, however, employees of a nearby car wash use a de-greasing agent to scrub away the paint and shoe polish.
    Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Murphy pulled a rifle out of his vehicle and began shooting at the man and others who were outside the car wash, police wrote in his arrest warrant.
    Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 July 2024
  • Basco makes a living running a mobile car wash business, wearing a trademark blue Ford Motor cap.
    Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2019
  • The Lasby family actually went to the car wash, to support the team, not knowing the money was going to them.
    Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Last fall, Joshua Maskill was slogging away at a car wash, but the 18-year-old was hoping for a better job opportunity.
    Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 31 July 2019
  • The dog was found in a travel crate outside a car wash in the White Marsh area, police spokeswoman Natalie Litofsky said.
    Cody Boteler, baltimoresun.com, 15 Aug. 2019
  • The newspaper had been investigating why a car wash did not receive a five-year exemption from local property taxes that was allegedly promised.
    Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2019
  • The lawsuit comes a week after the city completed a similar nuisance case against a South Dallas car wash where an employee died in a shooting in early June.
    Sarah Sarder, Dallas News, 24 July 2019
  • Earlier this month, a man found his 9-month-old daughter, Victoria Tran, unconscious in the back seat of his vehicle that had been parked at a Garland car wash.
    Dallas News, 20 Aug. 2019
  • They were spotted on May 3 in the Ford F-150 at the car wash.
    Eric Levenson and Amanda Watts, CNN, 10 May 2022
  • Just be sure to cross out the name of the car wash on the address box.
    Jason Gay, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Vicky White was not seen in the photos from the car wash.
    Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 9 May 2022
  • The sharp, vibrant cars that make up the mural add flair to the car wash.
    Scott Talley, Detroit Free Press, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Sanchez worked for a time with his brothers-in-law at a car wash.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2022
  • The car wash did not appear to be active at the time of the incident.
    Hyeyoon Alyssa Choi, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Fans of the show know that in the first season Walt worked part time at a car wash to help make ends meet.
    Dan Fellner, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2021
  • Surveillance video from the car wash showed the Cadillac.
    CBS News, 12 May 2022
  • Around the corner was a shuttered fireworks store and a car wash.
    Kartikay Mehrotra, ProPublica, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Perhaps a plot with a view of the Roy Rogers or that car wash that went out of business?
    David Sedaris, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2021
  • On Friday night, Phish turned the place into a car wash.
    Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2024
  • But, in the first sign of the day that easing restrictions aren’t the flipping of a switch, the car wash was closed.
    Peter Hartlaub, SFChronicle.com, 5 May 2020
  • The truck pump would be south of where the car wash currently is at the Pride gas station.
    Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 31 Dec. 2020
  • The car wash may be quick, but take your time perusing all of the options.
    Tirion Morris, The Arizona Republic, 1 May 2021
  • Keep your car clean:Why does Louisville have so many car washes?
    Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 31 May 2023
  • Kind of like you when visiting the car wash after a long road trip.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Nov. 2021
  • Most express car washes may not offer tire treatments or waxing.
    Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 July 2024

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