| Just as the sea looks ready to submerge the coastal burgh of Montrose, so has its football club become a harbour for washed-up professionals. |
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| He beat Keating in 1996, partly by casting himself as a champion of ordinary Aussies and Keating as representative of a washed-up elite. |
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| Private eye Harry Moseby is hired by a washed-up actress to find her runaway teenage daughter. |
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| I went there to laugh at the washed-up child star, and I'm sorry that I ever thought like that. |
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| Both her tone and her tune epitomize soul and bring her character, a washed-up cabaret dancer, to life. |
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| He plays a boozy, washed-up lawyer who takes an 18-year-old legal whiz kid under his wing. |
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| Some Marvel staffers, in terms they now regret or deny, denounced his work as the ravings of a washed-up, senile old man. |
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| The world would be a much better place if today's washed-up actresses saw patriotism as the route to respectability. |
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| Flat as a washed-up jellyfish, the 217 hectare sand cay is only 4m above sea level at its highest point. |
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| The carcass of the 27 ft mammal was washed-up and became stuck on rocks at Oxwich Bay in the Gower peninsula. |
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| Yet somehow, in French director Benoit Jacquot's latest feature, Sade, the Marquis seems more washed-up old rebel than intriguing and sexy personality. |
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| He's a compellingly close-to-the-bone pastiche of washed-up stand-ups. |
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| It's funny how most of that generation of comedians have transformed into washed-up has-beens or else are producing safe, unchallenging cosy comedy for the 35-55 age group. |
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| Bill Murray is a washed-up actor doing commercials in Japan. |
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| The judge asks him if he can think of any reason he shouldn't be shipped off to prison and if there's anyone out there who cares about a washed-up has-been. |
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| In a matter of a few weeks, William Hague, once head of a struggling gathering of washed-up, latter-day Tories, has seen his fortunes miraculously transformed. |
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| She can do washed-up and tuned-out, sleazy and half-dressed, sleek and oozing with wealth. |
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| What was your initial read on this premise, making the washed-up child star a horse? |
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| The outspoken Oscar-nominated character actor plays a washed-up music manager in the lovely musical Begin Again. |
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| But I also think about how Whitney Houston had declined from American musical royalty to the oft-ridiculed and washed-up singer and drug fiend. |
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| I know: I was that washed-up unfortunate once. |
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| Kitsch is the big surf of washed-up popular culture. |
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| Dad is a dangerously stingy, washed-up actor. |
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| Examination of the shoreline also revealed no damage or washed-up debris which would have indicated the passage of a pressure wave across the lake surface. |
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| Roseate Terns often choose nesting sites that provide cover and usually hide their nests under dense grasses and other plants, boulders, or washed-up debris. |
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| However, a more likely explanation is that sea-coal was originally found in a washed-up form on the beaches of the North-East and other parts of the country. |
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| Australian film producers are hiring washed-up seppos to star in a local film in a desperate, ultimately futile attempt to whack a few bums on seats. |
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| Poking a coconut out from the fringes of the bush, I tried light-headedly, halfheartedly really, to break it apart on a washed-up giant clamshell. |
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| Either the 38-year-old mother-of-two didn't realise she was showing everybody her, er, beach balls, or she got the wrong night for the Washed-Up Old Pin-Up's Awards. |
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