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Recent Examples of spume
Flecks of spume were gathering in the corners of his mouth.
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Douglas Stuart,
New Yorker,
12 Apr. 2026
But for all those currents to crash together in a great spume of music and emotion on December 18, 1962, artists and audiences required a special room, the basic apparatus of togetherness in Europe’s musical tradition.
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Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
16 Oct. 2024
The rasp, first pressed into the ice block, tense as a spring, suddenly surfs across the berg, scraping up a spume of glittering white snow as stray flecks flutter into the air.
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Ethan Pan,
Outside Online,
23 May 2024
The water’s edge was frothed into a pink spume - evidence, Kolya speculated, that the artemia were spawning.
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Henry Wismayer,
Anchorage Daily News,
30 Aug. 2022
The water’s edge was frothed into a pink spume — evidence, Kolya speculated, that the artemia were spawning.
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Henry Wismayer,
Washington Post,
29 Aug. 2022
Standing on these beaches creates a sense of natural infinity – of white sand, of frothy spume, of blue-green water.
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Angelina Villa-Clarke,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2021
In the intervening seven decades, the event has developed from a small sports-car show and race into a weeklong car-and-lifestyle bacchanal that blankets the Monterey Peninsula in plumes of blue smoke and champagne spume.
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Brett Berk,
Car and Driver,
2 Mar. 2018
Douglas Stuart,
New Yorker,
12 Apr. 2026
But for all those currents to crash together in a great spume of music and emotion on December 18, 1962, artists and audiences required a special room, the basic apparatus of togetherness in Europe’s musical tradition.
—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
16 Oct. 2024
The rasp, first pressed into the ice block, tense as a spring, suddenly surfs across the berg, scraping up a spume of glittering white snow as stray flecks flutter into the air.
—
Ethan Pan,
Outside Online,
23 May 2024
The water’s edge was frothed into a pink spume - evidence, Kolya speculated, that the artemia were spawning.
—
Henry Wismayer,
Anchorage Daily News,
30 Aug. 2022
The water’s edge was frothed into a pink spume — evidence, Kolya speculated, that the artemia were spawning.
—
Henry Wismayer,
Washington Post,
29 Aug. 2022
Standing on these beaches creates a sense of natural infinity – of white sand, of frothy spume, of blue-green water.
—
Angelina Villa-Clarke,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2021
In the intervening seven decades, the event has developed from a small sports-car show and race into a weeklong car-and-lifestyle bacchanal that blankets the Monterey Peninsula in plumes of blue smoke and champagne spume.
—
Brett Berk,
Car and Driver,
2 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spume
Noun
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Los Angeles Fire Department crews ripped through 50-foot walls filled with foam insulation to get to the building’s steel skeleton and its storage racks.
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Reflective, multilayer shields will block the most heat, and ones with a thicker foam core will work much better than thin ones.
Noun
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On Nia Archives’ second album, Emotional Junglist, jungle’s pop princess folds surf, pop-rock, and grunge into high-octane breaks.
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The ship is packed with everything from a FlowRider surf simulator, waterslides, laser tag, an escape room, and more.
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“Spume.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spume. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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