whitecap
noun
white·cap
ˈ(h)wīt-ˌkap 
: a wave crest breaking into white foam
—usually used in plural
Examples of whitecap in a Sentence
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For three days, as a fierce wind whipped the water outside the windows into frothing whitecaps, the group sat through a series of talks, most of them by two mathematicians from Stony Brook University in New York: Misha Lyubich and Dima Dudko.
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Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024
About that time, the wind picks up and within a few seconds, there are 1- to 2-foot whitecaps, with rain and thunder.
—Idaho Statesman, 2 Mar. 2016
This can be less desirable on a jet ski, of course, when part of the fun is bouncing around on the whitecaps.
—WIRED, 18 Nov. 2023
The dancing whitecaps were pretty but somewhat ominous; at the coffee shop a man had assured me that the flood watch remained very much on.
—William T. Vollmann, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
Wind throbbed in ears, and whipped up whitecaps on the Potomac River.
—Martin Weil, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2023
The surf was high, with some whitecaps forming in Belfast Harbor and Penobscot Bay.
—Justine McDaniel, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
As evening fell Friday at Chatham Lighthouse in Chatham, one of the outer Cape locations expected to bear the brunt of the storm, dozens of wave-watchers braved fierce gusts to gaze out at the roiling ocean, and snap windblown selfies with the distant whitecaps.
—Jenna Russell, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
As evening fell on Friday at Chatham Lighthouse in Chatham, one of the outer Cape locations expected to bear the brunt of the storm, dozens of wave-watchers braved fierce gusts to gaze out at the roiling ocean, and snap windblown selfies with the distant whitecaps.
—Colleen Cronin, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024
About that time, the wind picks up and within a few seconds, there are 1- to 2-foot whitecaps, with rain and thunder.
—Idaho Statesman, 2 Mar. 2016
This can be less desirable on a jet ski, of course, when part of the fun is bouncing around on the whitecaps.
—WIRED, 18 Nov. 2023
The dancing whitecaps were pretty but somewhat ominous; at the coffee shop a man had assured me that the flood watch remained very much on.
—William T. Vollmann, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
Wind throbbed in ears, and whipped up whitecaps on the Potomac River.
—Martin Weil, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2023
The surf was high, with some whitecaps forming in Belfast Harbor and Penobscot Bay.
—Justine McDaniel, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
As evening fell Friday at Chatham Lighthouse in Chatham, one of the outer Cape locations expected to bear the brunt of the storm, dozens of wave-watchers braved fierce gusts to gaze out at the roiling ocean, and snap windblown selfies with the distant whitecaps.
—Jenna Russell, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
As evening fell on Friday at Chatham Lighthouse in Chatham, one of the outer Cape locations expected to bear the brunt of the storm, dozens of wave-watchers braved fierce gusts to gaze out at the roiling ocean, and snap windblown selfies with the distant whitecaps.
—Colleen Cronin, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
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whitecap
noun
white·cap
ˈhwīt-ˌkap
ˈwīt-
: the top of a wave breaking into foam
—usually used in plural
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