as in bubbly
covered with, consisting of, or resembling foam foamy milk shakes

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Recent Examples of foamy These handsome sandals include a foamy, anti-odor sole underneath comfy straps made of canvas and faux leather. Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 12 July 2025 Even though a pump of this stuff yields a thick, foamy formula, the feel is feather-light. Allure, 8 July 2025 Quickly, residents reported a murky, foamy quality of the water coming from their pipes. Matt Lavietes, NBC news, 2 July 2025 For the beer drinking Luddites (me), that’s largely about consistently achieving the ideal half to three-quarter inches of head on a nitro for a proper rich, foamy sip — no simple feat. Sunny Hubler, Charlotte Observer, 16 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for foamy
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Adjective
  • Laura Burdese, deputy CEO, Bulgari A bubbly personality and sparkling energy coupled with sharp business acumen define Burdese, who makes a case of the (too) few women executives sitting at the top of international luxury companies.
    WWD Staff, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Bake in preheated oven until cheese is melted and mixture is bubbly, about 10 minutes.
    Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Scrub the day away with this gentle sudsy soap, which comes in multiple scents (including fragrance free) and sizes, and is great even as the kids grow.
    Alex Apatoff, People.com, 6 Aug. 2025
  • From an axe to a sudsy bar of soap, the thing that appears on each cover is drawn from a story, poem, or essay in the issue and could be recognizable anywhere.
    Kei Lim June 9, Literary Hub, 9 June 2025
Adjective
  • Its sparkling white walls resemble the membrane of a high-tech pod and futuristic techno beats echo around them.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Oud Zarian opens with a bright, sparkling lift of bergamot and ginger that sets an unexpectedly fresh stage for such a weighty central ingredient.
    Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Despite something of a false opening promise, Last Rites is appropriately terrifying, far more successful on a scare-by-scare basis than the second or third films and a really frothy return to the aesthetic pleasures of Wan’s first Conjuring.
    Gregory Nussen, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Many frothy business models that depended on easy credit—BNPL foremost among them—suffered as capital became costlier.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2025

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“Foamy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foamy. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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