spumy
Example Sentences
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The savior of the world appears in this painting as a soft, spumy cipher.
From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2017
The British film industry paid for his next film, Man of Aran, an almost too beautiful picture of life on a great spumy boulder set in a western sea.
From Time Magazine Archive
This irritated Purdy, who was spumy with the self-importance of one who has stood in the thick of the fray.
From Australia Felix by Richardson, Henry Handel
A spumy trail of nocturnal loiterers clung to their wake.
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton
The ridges had become walls, with great frothing crests and sides that were smeared with spumy lines.
From For Jacinta by Bindloss, Harold
