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suds

[suhdz] / sʌdz /
NOUN
froth
Synonyms


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So when state troopers spotted the suds, they charged Mr. Jouppi with a misdemeanor for knowingly transporting it.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

Foams appear in everyday life as soap suds, shaving cream, whipped toppings and food emulsions like mayonnaise.

From Science Daily Jan. 15, 2026

The couple were going to serve Atrevida suds at the summer gala for the Colorado Springs Hispanic Chamber, which calls itself the Concilio.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 16, 2024

Sun and suds: Head to the backyard for a bath.

From New York Times Jun. 9, 2023

He bulldozes past me and covers the rest of the hood with suds.

From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na

Then sudses with all her heart those three or four ounces of gray hair, soft and interesting as a baby’s.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

First, a soapy sponge—nothing fancy, just one of the cheap ones, sudsed up with a dish soap that smells good.

From Salon May 5, 2026

You could try the “mermaid” approach, where you encourage your daughter to lie down in the bath to wet her head, then come back up to be sudsed.

From Slate Mar. 8, 2021

Blitz Family Robinson Soap operas, the joy and pain of millions of U.S. radio listeners, have never sudsed up the English air.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some of the soaps' Homeric techniques have already sudsed off on the evening shows, partly through the smash spoof opera Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman!

From Time Magazine Archive

He walked over and pulled one of the brushes off the defunct scrubber and sudsed it up.

From The Bramble Bush by George Luther Schelling

But I’d say seven to ten minutes of my 15-minute reset is, almost always, spent sudsing and scrubbing.

From Salon May 5, 2026

The declaration came emphatically, out of nowhere — dropped between sudsing his hair and rinsing out the shampoo with a plastic yellow duck full of water.

From Washington Post Nov. 8, 2017

It does nothing for you unless you notice it — but it is so humble and boring; and sudsing, rinsing and wiping are so pedestrian.

From New York Times Sep. 26, 2011

Throughout their four-year marriage, Kris and Rita have led a not-so-private life that would have a soap scenarist sudsing with envy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Eventually I pick up the soap, and as I’m sudsing the washcloth, it crosses my mind that it would be hard to soap up with just one hand.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen




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