spume

Example Sentences

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The style Matthiessen conjures is almost visual, with fragments of scene description and lines of unattributed dialogue arranged on the page like solitary brushstrokes or like breakers of spume on the open sea.

From The Wall Street Journal

For tens of minutes on a quarantined Thursday night, I spumed.

From New York Times

And with its evocations of cliffs, peaks, sails and spume, the building’s form relays a sympathetic message from the San Gabriel Mountains looming to the northeast to the surf at the city’s other end.

From Los Angeles Times

Ridley Scott used the industrial landscape of his native Teeside as the inspiration for the film's iconic opening shot of a nocturnal cityscape illuminated by hellish spumes of fire.

From BBC

At the stroke of 10, gray fog spumed across the turnstiles.

From New York Times