spindrift
Example Sentences
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James Instance, from Falmouth RNLI, said conditions there were getting worse, with high waves and spindrift coming through.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2022
Looking up, I noted the spindrift — blinding snow whipped into a frenzy by howling winds — that was sandblasting the entrance, some 20 feet above me.
From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2021
While the rest of the group heads out for a swim, I excuse myself, hop off the walkway to explore the unpaved crevices, and discover a little secluded cove frothed in spindrift.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 12, 2018
The battle to prevent healthy scepticism from metastasising into cancerous solipsism has typified Western philosophy since Thales of Miletus theorised that all things were but cosmic spindrift conjured momentarily from a great and watery flux.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2013
As I crouched inside my bivouac sack under the lip of the bergschrund, spindrift avalanches hissed down from the wall above and washed over me like surf, slowly burying my ledge.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
