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 • Nov. 21, 2025
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 • May 22, 2019
Dinosaurish creatures as big as skyscrapers do battle with equally gigantic robots on land and sea, pulverizing familiar cities and churning up geysers of spume.
From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2013
Hers are our kind of vocals: high, a series of careless whispers, vaporous not vapid, and dispassionate meant as a compliment, as though passion itself can be measured in spittle and spume.
From The Guardian • Jul. 5, 2013
A rainbow flashed through the spume and spray… then the waves smoothed out like a skin and suddenly there was no more river in front, and it was hard to breathe as he went over.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Vocabulary lists containing spume
"My Wonder Horse," Vocabulary from the short story
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