spume
verb (used with object)
to eject or discharge as or like foam or froth; spew (often followed byforth ).
spumes
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present tense formof spume (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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She covers these turbid, hot-colored grounds with those deft black lines and smudges, plus airbrushed spumes of white or red, and also multicolored halftone dots that form a bridge between image and information.
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2021
I watched the spumes of snow spiraling upward from the nearest peak.
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2019
Ridley Scott used the industrial landscape of his native Teeside as the inspiration for the film's iconic opening shot of a nocturnal cityscape illuminated by hellish spumes of fire.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2017
The actual words Bertie spumes, like Eliza's "The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain," mean little; they are the sounds of elocutional and emotional liberation.
From Time ● Apr. 4, 2011
Sometimes the sea was quiet and blue as well, but most days it churned dark gray-green, with spumes of white blown and dissolved in the air.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
