spindrift

Example Sentences

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James Instance, from Falmouth RNLI, said conditions there were getting worse, with high waves and spindrift coming through.

From BBC • Feb. 18, 2022

While the rest of the group heads out for a swim, I excuse myself, hop off the walkway to explore the unpaved crevices, and discover a little secluded cove frothed in spindrift.

From Scientific American • Feb. 12, 2018

The painter Winslow Homer would have been hard put to match the majestic images of spindrift flying from crashing waves in a movie that might facetiously be subtitled “Early ‘Downton Abbey’ by the Sea, Manqué.”

From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2014

The battle to prevent healthy scepticism from metastasising into cancerous solipsism has typified Western philosophy since Thales of Miletus theorised that all things were but cosmic spindrift conjured momentarily from a great and watery flux.

From BBC • Dec. 6, 2013

It took about twenty minutes for the spindrift to inundate my bivvy sack—a thin nylon envelope shaped exactly like a Baggies sandwich bag, only bigger—to the level of the breathing slit.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer