suds
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Foams appear in everyday life as soap suds, shaving cream, whipped toppings and food emulsions like mayonnaise.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 15, 2026
“There are so many ways to make the suds stretch further.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
The couple were going to serve Atrevida suds at the summer gala for the Colorado Springs Hispanic Chamber, which calls itself the Concilio.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
Southgate sits in a bath, lifejacket fastened to his torso amid the suds.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2024
I poke the comers of the clothes in between the wringers and they are grabbed and dragged through, the arms of the shirts ballooning with trapped air, suds dripping from the cuffs.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
Then sudses with all her heart those three or four ounces of gray hair, soft and interesting as a baby’s.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
First, a soapy sponge—nothing fancy, just one of the cheap ones, sudsed up with a dish soap that smells good.
From Salon ● May 5, 2026
You could try the “mermaid” approach, where you encourage your daughter to lie down in the bath to wet her head, then come back up to be sudsed.
From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2021
Blitz Family Robinson Soap operas, the joy and pain of millions of U.S. radio listeners, have never sudsed up the English air.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some of the soaps' Homeric techniques have already sudsed off on the evening shows, partly through the smash spoof opera Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman!
From Time Magazine Archive
When James had scraped the soot from his face and neck and hands, and had sudsed it from his hair, James observed, with some concern, that Pirate was coughing at a great rate.
From Man on the Box by Harold MacGrath
But I’d say seven to ten minutes of my 15-minute reset is, almost always, spent sudsing and scrubbing.
From Salon ● May 5, 2026
The declaration came emphatically, out of nowhere — dropped between sudsing his hair and rinsing out the shampoo with a plastic yellow duck full of water.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 2017
It does nothing for you unless you notice it — but it is so humble and boring; and sudsing, rinsing and wiping are so pedestrian.
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2011
Throughout their four-year marriage, Kris and Rita have led a not-so-private life that would have a soap scenarist sudsing with envy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Eventually I pick up the soap, and as I’m sudsing the washcloth, it crosses my mind that it would be hard to soap up with just one hand.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
