whitecap

Example Sentences

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I backed up and stumbled as we braced ourselves to meet the wall of water that was now a whitecap above our heads.

From The Guardian • Dec. 14, 2016

Wave upon wave of oceanic orchestral sounds — swirling strings, arpeggiated harps, droning brass and winds, the whitecap shimmer of multiple harps, bells, marimbas, vibraphones and keyboards — momentously evoked the Pacific.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2015

Some of the islands are so small that they seem no bigger than a whitecap from a few miles' distance.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here & there in the long groundswell of words a whitecap showed.

From Time Magazine Archive

A whitecap tossed us beyond a cluster of rafts, most of them empty.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys