soap bubble

noun

|Updated on: 13 Jun 2018

Definition of soap bubble

: a hollow iridescent globe formed by blowing a film of soapsuds (as from a pipe)

Recent Examples of soap bubble from the Web

The cars are coming back up, slow like soap bubbles.

— chicago tribune, chicagotribune.com, "Algren Award Grand Prize winner: "Church of Pit" by Dustin Hyman," 2 June 2018
To honor and recognize children who have been taken from their parents, people blew soap bubbles, which floated away on the breeze.

— jeff gammage, Philly.com, "Day of action: Philly demonstrators demand end to separating families at border," 1 June 2018
Gravity-defying lightness struts its wondrous stuff in her abstract yet suggestively biomorphic pictures of suns (or sunflowers), planets (or soap bubbles), flora (or fauna), figures (or doodles), butterflies (or X-marks-the-spot gestures).

— david pagel, latimes.com, "Laurie Nye paints her way to Venus. You can join the ride," 16 May 2018
Young children can help you sort laundry, wash dishes (because playing with soap bubbles is FUN!), and even assist with meal preparation.

— eva dwight, USA TODAY, "How to reduce attention-seeking behaviors from your kids," 15 May 2018
Others, like Julia Manhire, stepped a little closer and giggled as Askew smiled, then enclosed her from head to shoulder inside a soap bubble.

— kenneth k. lam, baltimoresun.com, "The fleeting art of the bubble," 6 Apr. 2018
For more info: PASSAGE: TBD SCIENCE: Bubbles There is something magical about soap bubbles - floating, fleeting, iridescent orbs that defy gravity, and whose beauty masks their complexity.

— CBS News, "This week on "Sunday Morning" (Jan. 28)," 26 Jan. 2018
Shen and his team found a very complex set of fluid dynamics that govern how the soap bubbles form, evolve and eventually pop.

— jason daley, Smithsonian, "Breathtaking Bubbles, Butterfly Wings, and a Glowing Atom Take Top Prizes in Science Photo Contest," 14 Feb. 2018
The glass virtuoso James Carpenter used slender steel cables to suspend an ultraclear wall — then the largest of its kind — that seemed to float like a soap bubble between the shops and the street.

— justin davidson, Daily Intelligencer, "The Megamall–Hotel–Condo–Concert Hall That Ate New York City," 10 Jan. 2018

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