How to Use whitecap in a Sentence

whitecap

noun

• Big winds and puffy clouds, whitecaps on the bay and talk about snow in the hills.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Feb. 2023
• Wind whipped whitecaps across the sea, and waves crashed against a nearby jetty.
  — Staff Author, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2026
• When dealing with whitecaps and wind, our sonar is not as effective.
  — USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2023
• The current is a nice speed, just short of creating whitecaps.
  — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• Vincent tied his kayak to ours, then steered us safely across the whitecaps to the mainland.
  — Jacqueline Kehoe, Travel + Leisure, 23 Jan. 2025
• By seven, half an inch of sand coated the tent floor, and whitecaps marched down the river.
  — John Todd, Outdoor Life, 9 July 2026
• 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
• Wind throbbed in ears, and whipped up whitecaps on the Potomac River.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2023
• By the time Bob reached it, the open water was 300 feet wide and building whitecaps.
  — Robert E. Houle, Outdoor Life, 19 Feb. 2025
• Granton told the passengers to look for whitecaps, where whales might be breaking the water’s surface.
  — Nina Agrawal, latimes.com, 18 Aug. 2017
• With palm trees, a wide, flat beach, and whitecaps, this is classic California.
  — Karen Ruffini, Travel + Leisure, 5 Mar. 2023
• 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
• Down below was a vast body of water, the surface broken at intervals by whitecaps.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2022
• Crispen said that at this time of year there are typically whitecaps in the water from wind, which is challenging.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC news, 15 July 2026
• The tip of the wave spills over and breaks into foam, or whitecap, releasing the excess energy.
  — Francesco Fedele, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2025
• By midmorning, winds had changed course and were blowing from the south, turning the bay into a cauldron of whitecaps.
  — José De Córdoba and, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2017
• The promise of kiteboarding is that a wind strong enough to draw small whitecaps from the water can take you on a magic-carpet ride.
  — James Somers, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2019
• 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
• The surf was high, with some whitecaps forming in Belfast Harbor and Penobscot Bay.
  — Justine McDaniel, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
• This is the largest whitecap on what has been a massive wave of consolidation this year in the global insurance sector.
  — Kia Kokalitcheva, Axios, 2 Aug. 2024
• Top looks out on the Tagus River, choppy and windy today, whitecaps blowing on the water like bumps on snakeskin.
  — Dana Vachon, Air Mail, 26 Apr. 2025
• Local media broadcast video of whitecap waves churning the city's normally placid canals of Xochimilco as boats bobbed up and down.
  — Mark Stevenson, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2017
• Local media broadcast video of whitecap waves churning the city’s normally placid canals of Xochimilco as boats bobbed up and down.
  — Mark Stevenson, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2017
• The 14-foot flat bottom fishing boat was swamped by whitecaps, CPW reported.
  — Christa Swanson, CBS News, 14 Mar. 2026
• The island is so close to shore and the water in the bay, which the breeze had rucked into a frenzy of small whitecaps, didn’t seem to be giving the smaller fishing boats any trouble.
  — Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2025
• The thing about wave elections is that its only really when the party in power comes to believe one is coming that the whitecaps really start forming.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 25 May 2017
• It was built as a global cruising yacht, though its ability to excel in stiff winds and whitecaps has led to success on the competitive regatta circuit.
  — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 13 June 2024
• The Los Angeles River roared to life, spewing whitecaps as water churned along the concrete channel.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2023
• In cars, on foot, in the sea The Pacific off Lahaina sparkles blue during the day and, when the winds kick up, cottony whitecaps stretch to the horizon.
  — Joshua Partlow, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2023
• When the breeze kicks up, Tahoe Vista blossoms with colorful kites attached to boards piloted by daredevil kiteboarders, scooting about the whitecaps.
  — Dino Vournas, The Mercury News, 21 May 2017