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  • verb Present participle of spume.

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Examples

  • It took the roughening touch of the wind across its face and frayed at the top, in spuming white.

    Kook Peter Heller 2010

  • Just the curve of the shore out to the spuming cliffs of Punto Final—Last, or Final, Point.

    Kook Peter Heller 2010

  • In an instant he had revved the engine and the car leapfrogged forward, ploughing into the stalls and sending shattered planks, fruit and vegetables spuming into the air.

    Black Butterfly Mark Gatiss 2008

  • We both looked out the shuddering window at the horizontal snow, and at the spuming waves, which even now were bigger, more violent than they had been an hour ago.

    The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007

  • The top of the one ahead of us blew off white like a spuming snow cornice.

    The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007

  • We both looked out the shuddering window at the horizontal snow, and at the spuming waves, which even now were bigger, more violent than they had been an hour ago.

    The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007

  • The top of the one ahead of us blew off white like a spuming snow cornice.

    The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007

  • The Great White Whale of spoiler warnings, spuming in a sea of narrative.

    Spoiled Again! 2005

  • He glanced up at the chimney above us, spuming clouds of thick gray smoke.

    A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

  • The long – drawn agony of the retreating water as it was sucked back again into the throat of the chasm had ceased, and he knew that the next tremendous pulsation of the sea below would hurl the spuming destruction up upon him.

    For the term of his natural life 2004

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