spume

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

The spume leapt up then dropped away in frothy white clods.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 18, 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

She covers these turbid, hot-colored grounds with those deft black lines and smudges, plus airbrushed spumes of white or red, and also multicolored halftone dots that form a bridge between image and information.

From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2021

I watched the spumes of snow spiraling upward from the nearest peak.

From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2019

Ridley Scott used the industrial landscape of his native Teeside as the inspiration for the film's iconic opening shot of a nocturnal cityscape illuminated by hellish spumes of fire.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2017

Back on the surface, Esther swims past four fountains that spurt spumes at her nearness, then burst into flame as she swims by again.

From Time ● Jun. 13, 2013

She laughed and shook her head, fountaining spumes of rain from the ends of her hair.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

At the stroke of 10, gray fog spumed across the turnstiles.

From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2014

As the sullen waters spumed in white fury along the Great Barrier Reef, steely, hidden fingers of coral dug into the bottom of the Endeavour and the hearts of every man aboard.

From Time Magazine Archive

As the carrier's five destroyer escorts closed in and depth charges spumed up, the submarine jammed her diving planes into the down position.

From Time Magazine Archive

He drove a battered 1974 Plymouth and spumed the new $1.3 million Governor's mansion, living alone in a $400-a-month apartment.

From Time Magazine Archive

The huge engine of the Cadillac roared; white smoke spumed from the tailpipe.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

And Tucci, playing a sleazier Tony Stark, is forever spuming the orders and insults of an undersize bully.

From Time ● Jun. 26, 2014

At times the movie plays like a bottle of champagne shaken so thoroughly by pranksters that it keeps spuming its contents till there’s no liquid left to drink.

From Time ● May 30, 2014

But the sisters were perceptive little girls, and if life was mostly a carefree and sheltered idyll, there was also an awareness of spuming life outside their garden wall.

From Time Magazine Archive

Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley sponsored an extravagant welcome, with posters of greeting on every lamppost along the lakefront and fireboats plying the shores of Lake Michigan, spuming red, white and blue colored water.

From Time Magazine Archive

When she reached out I retreated, spuming her tentative touch.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein