How to Use washboard in a Sentence

washboard

noun

• Sure enough, closer to the canyon the road turned to washboard.
  — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 10 May 2018
• And there's some link between Taco, baked beans and a washboard.
  — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2020
• Channing Tatum and his washboard abs are returning back to the big screen — for the third time.
  — NBC News, 29 Nov. 2021
• Two hours into the flight, the bumps came faster and harder, like driving over a washboard road.
  — Bucky McMahon, Popular Mechanics, 8 Sep. 2017
• But if your primary goal is to be fit and have a strong core, washboard abs don’t have to be on your radar.
  — Popular Science, 4 Sep. 2020
• The first gig had Palazzo on piano, Bougerol singing and playing washboard, and a tap dancer.
  — Joe Klopus, kansascity, 4 Mar. 2018
• The big tires and the Fox 2.0 Performance shocks ate up the washboard and made mince of the ruts, spitting rocks and gravel and laughing at the sandy parts.
  — Charles Fleming, latimes.com, 14 June 2019
• The stream cascades down a washboard-like slope of shale before making a sharp right turn at the base of the falls and passing below a shale cliff.
  — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 22 Nov. 2022
• Bechdel wonders, in the frantic tone of a salesman promising washboard abs.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021
• Gay sat in my rental car and led me the rest of the way, over washboard roads that turned into something like a dry riverbed, clotted with boulders and jagged rock.
  — Jennifer Percy, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2018
• The car glides along the road, countering pitch and lift as well as roll, and its body stays level even if the road underneath turns washboard.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 31 Mar. 2022
• Woody Mountain Road is washboard-rough but passable by sedan.
  — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 5 July 2018
• The pic, which went up on Sunday, shows Lopez wearing a skimpy white bikini with her washboard abs on full display.
  — Christina Oehler, Health.com, 12 Aug. 2019
• With those washboard abs and toned legs, LeAnn can probably wear a potato sack and look stunning.
  — Chaise Sanders, Country Living, 16 Oct. 2021
• The patented washboard-in-a-bag technology helps rub stains out of clothes in 1-2 minutes.
  — Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 27 Jan. 2023
• The roads in the monument range from smooth laterite to choppy dirt washboard, and even some passages of rubble and sand.
  — Aaron Gulley, Outside Online, 28 Mar. 2018
• The chassis tuning is dialed in to the right side of sporty, and the ride remained civil, even when our daily errands took us over washboard roads.
  — Annie White, Car and Driver, 27 Jan. 2020
• Everyone pour one out for Zac Efron's washboard abs from 2017's Baywatch.
  — Omar Sanchez, EW.com, 2 Apr. 2020
• The robocar of the future should be able to take you on a winding road with a washboard surface, and not even produce ripples in your drink — or in your inner ear or bones.
  — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
• Either way, the shirtless look shows off the character’s iconic washboard abs.
  — André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2022
• The structure trembles a touch more over high-frequency washboard, and the tremors are amplified through the steering column.
  — David Beard, Car and Driver, 11 Aug. 2020
• To make: Retrofit an existing cabinet (or build a new one) to fit a vintage washboard.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 19 Dec. 2022
• Imagine a spoon sliding down a washboard in some folksy song about hillbilly divorce.
  — Joseph Goodman, al, 14 Apr. 2023
• Once all the nitrogen ice was gone, this material would pile up to create the washboard terrain.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2018
• Olivia Newton John struts between aisles of men, pushing them to transform their bulging bellies into greased and tanned washboard abs.
  — Chris Isaak, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Dec. 2022
• Who knew that Noah Beck had an extensive skincare collection to match his washboard abs?
  — Seventeen Editors, Seventeen, 7 June 2022
• Oh, and also her incredible washboard abs and toned legs.
  — Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 Jan. 2021
• A cobalt blue sweatsuit revealed just a hint of the super's washboard abs, adding a casual factor to the otherwise look-at-me moment.
  — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 20 July 2017
• Because Farmer's Loop Road is becoming a washboard as permafrost melts.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 23 Oct. 2017
• The two-lane road leading from the off-ramp to the visitor center wasn’t paved until the 1980s, turning a tooth-rattling jaunt over a washboard trail into a pleasant drive through the dusty landscape.
  — Scott Craven, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024