froth
noun
an aggregation of bubbles, as on an agitated liquid or at the mouth of a hard-driven horse; foam; spume.
had frothed
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past perfectof froth.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Walter Lippmann, who during the campaign had frothed with impatience to reach the New Frontier, now, on arrival, thought it best to make haste slowly.
From Time Magazine Archive
How they had frothed at the mouth and their eyes had turned as green as cucumbers.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
Mac Tavish had frothed at the mouth as he rolled his r's and had threshed the air with his fist in frantic protest.
From All-Wool Morrison by Holman Day
They were pondering it gravely, but not sadly, for their poet was now at rest, in the companionship of Æschylus, safe from the petty spites which had frothed and fretted about his life.
From A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Mrs. Sutherland Orr
His wrath which had frothed white for a moment, cooled down into a fluid sort of bewilderment which seemed about to set and harden in a smile of disbelief.
From A Woman of Genius by Mary Hunter Austin
