froth
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More than one flopped backward in a cartoonish froth of sparks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Instead, Mahan’s candidacy was more like Pets.com, a famous e-commerce flop that came to embody the heedless froth of the dot.com bubble.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
Chief among them was the huge speculative froth that had developed in the earlier part of the year when gold recorded an intraday peak of $5,626 near the end of January.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 2, 2026
Overall, however, with gold down a fifth from its Jan. 28 peak, much of the deleveraging taken place and the speculative froth eliminated from positioning, Bruce is comfortable with his sizable weighting in gold.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 27, 2026
His mouth began to give off a faint froth.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
It also froths milk and makes cold foam, which opens up even more possibilities for a build-your-own drink bar.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
"When you open a fizzy drink it froths, that's the CO2 coming out."
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2025
In the video, a column of light gray smoke froths and bubbles into a bright blue sky — the initial fire in the port’s Hangar 12, where the ammonium nitrate was stored.
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2021
As on Twitter, there’s very little plot — or rather there are waves of plot that peak in froths of excitement and then dissolve.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2021
He ended however by saying:—'Young froths and foams and bubbles sometimes very vigorously; but we must not compare the noise made by your tea-kettle here with the roaring of the ocean.'
From Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 by George Birkbeck Norman Hill
I squeezed the trigger on the blender until the mixture frothed up the sides of the jar, threatening to spew out.
From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2022
The host held out a glass; behind him flashed a grey pic of the Bronx estuary, waves frothed with yellow foam.
From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2022
Pour yourself some coffee, add some frothed milk, snuggle under your gravity blanket, and enjoy a movie on your 1080p resolution video projector.
From The Verge ● Nov. 30, 2020
“If ever the world is to be again flooded, like the Netherlands, to kill off its rats,” Melville mused, “then the eternal whale will still survive, and … spout his frothed defiance to the skies.”
From New York Times ● May 2, 2020
Those of us who weren’t reeling in horror frothed with anger.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
Even when he’s been fiery, nearly frothing at the mouth, Day-Lewis has always been a master of stillness, relying on his tall, taut frame to hint at the formidable power or menace underneath.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2025
What that means is we failed a lot in order to perfect it, to make the Barista the highest quality it can be, especially when it comes to frothing qualities for making lattes and cappuccinos.
From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2024
George says both players are "frothing" at the prospect of facing South Africa.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2024
Suddenly, at the beach, there was life everywhere: fish frothing in the surf, fish flooding inlets.
From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2024
Every wave vanished into the island without a clash, with only a little frothing and foaming.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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