whitecap

Example Sentences

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I backed up and stumbled as we braced ourselves to meet the wall of water that was now a whitecap above our heads.

From The Guardian • Dec. 14, 2016

Wave upon wave of oceanic orchestral sounds — swirling strings, arpeggiated harps, droning brass and winds, the whitecap shimmer of multiple harps, bells, marimbas, vibraphones and keyboards — momentously evoked the Pacific.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2015

Some of the islands are so small that they seem no bigger than a whitecap from a few miles' distance.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here & there in the long groundswell of words a whitecap showed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Much harden The water was running out against him, and every whitecap that struck him broadside sent water into the bottom of the boat.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt