spumy
Example Sentences
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The savior of the world appears in this painting as a soft, spumy cipher.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2017
The British film industry paid for his next film, Man of Aran, an almost too beautiful picture of life on a great spumy boulder set in a western sea.
From Time Magazine Archive
This irritated Purdy, who was spumy with the self-importance of one who has stood in the thick of the fray.
From Australia Felix by Richardson, Henry Handel
As he spoke, Lennard saw what seemed to him like an illimitable sea of huge spumy billows and tumbling masses of foam, which seemed to roll and break over each other without sound.
From The World Peril of 1910 by Griffith, George Chetwynd
The ridges had become walls, with great frothing crests and sides that were smeared with spumy lines.
From For Jacinta by Bindloss, Harold
