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Example sentences for "spume"

Lexicographically close words:
sprung; spry; spuds; spue; spued; spun; spunge; spungy; spunk; spunky
  1. The surgeon was evidently beginning to doubt whether I was not wrong, but he could not dispute the occasional wandering of the eye, and the frequent spume upon the water.

  2. The frothy spume at the corners of the mouth, is not for a moment to be compared with that which is evident enough in both of these affections.

  3. Would I were with my first love To hear the rush and roar Of spume below the doorstep And winds upon the door.

  4. I mind about my first love, And hear the rush and roar Of spume below the doorstep And winds upon the door.

  5. The spume as before was blowing in clouds of snow over the ice, and fled in very startling flashes of whiteness under the livid drapery of the sky.

  6. This spume drove masthead high, and higher, horizontally, above the surface of the sea.

  7. Underneath, across the sand, surged the white spume of the breakers.

  8. Far below I heard the wash of the sea, and could just spy the white spume of it glimmering.

  9. The sweat was oozing, her satin coat losing the gloss, the spume flying back from her nostrils--"Soh!

  10. Something bobbed up among the spume and foam close to the Hirondelle's side.

  11. I thought of how long it had stood there just so, under the intermittent flashing of moon and sun and star, since first its flinty peak had pricked through the hot spume of prehistoric seas.

  12. There is a burst of flame on his deck--whether from his gun or the impact of our shell we shall never know; when the spume and spray fall away he has dived.

  13. The Leyland liner close on our starboard quarter has taken a torpedo and lies over under a cloud of spume and debris.

  14. The flood was as a very monster, and in its grip he himself was but a shaving, as it roared in his ears, its spume blinding him as it tossed him on high with the crest of its great churning waves.

  15. The splashing, roaring flood whirled on, throwing up clouds of spume where here and there great waves hurled themselves on to some obstruction.

  16. They spur for the river; they are broken, hurled on like spume before a storm.

  17. Nor had they sent for Orastes, but he came, and he was white as spume blown before the storm.

  18. Bobby knew, in a moment, that his duty was to put out from the sheltered harbour to the wind-swept, breaking open, where the spume was flying and the heave and fret of the sea threatened destruction to the little punt.

  19. So often had he made the trip from the ship to the storehouse that morning that even in the dark and through the flying spume of yellow horror he made his way direct to the first lieutenant, and saluted.

  20. Under the slope of the mountainous shores the swirling spume of gray-yellow dust was so dense and yet so light in weight that the men struggled in ashes to their waists, and it was hard to tell where earth ended and air began.

  21. As they neared the entrance in the reef, the surf rushed between the rocks, throwing up spume and spray as though a storm were raging.

  22. Almost without a curl it struck just below the landing and a boiling torrent of spume and spray hid the daring man from sight.

  23. The spume creams and surges, then disparts; but the sea-tangle sways to the deep currents of the tide undisturbed.

  24. However it was, he let the talk of wise women and the Book of Fate float over his head as the spume of the sea passes over the tangle far below.

  25. The jungle rolled like, a tidal wave to the very boundary; in places its green spume had fallen over the border.

  26. Webs of sea-spume glittered on the shining hair and on the white flesh.

  27. Under the ledge which we occupied was another cave--a cavern within a cavern--and when the latter was filled by the wash from a wave the compressed air forced a jet of spume up through the small vent opening into the main grotto.

  28. Oh, the storm-tumbled sea-ways traversed unafraid, As the squalls spin the spume down the Tracks of the Trade!

  29. It was, however, daylight of a kind, but so gray and murky and mixed with flying spume that they could see but little.

  30. They watched the great rollers thundering on the beach beyond the spit, rocketing their white spume high into the grim black sky, and lashing over at times into the lake.

  31. They swung around a bend, and the white spume of the rapids lay half a mile ahead of them.

  32. For a quarter of a mile above him he could see the white spume between the chasm walls, darkening with the approach of night.

  33. In the driving spume and under the dark clouds that went whistling by above their heads it was impossible to see more than a few yards before them.

  34. Fifteen, twenty, thirty minutes passed and the stout little craft still plunged forward in the night, at times almost entirely obscured by spume and flying spray.

  35. Spume and smoky spray were flying over the Nomad in clouds.

  36. A rending stoke, The red roof springs, and in the smoke And spume of shells the riven walls Pile where the splintered elm-tree spawls.

  37. Outside, the air was filled with the spume and shriek of bursting shells.

  38. His untimely and tragic death deeply affected us all; and though the ocean was his grave and the spume of the sea his shroud, his memory abides with us in the sanctuary of our prayers.

  39. Only when a brook storms under the road and down to the Drau can one see its grayish flow and spume through the gap below--the stream that once halted the German language on its yearning flight toward the blue waves of that southern sea.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spume" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aerate; air; beat; breaker; bubble; chaff; chip; cobweb; collar; cork; cream; down; dust; ether; fairy; feather; flue; fluff; foam; froth; fuzz; gossamer; head; lather; mantle; meringue; mote; mousse; plash; puff; scud; scum; shower; slosh; souffle; sparge; spatter; splash; splatter; sponge; spray; sprinkle; spume; straw; suds; surf; swash; whip; whisk; yeast