[ UK /spjˈuːm/ ]
VERB
  1. make froth or foam and become bubbly
    The river foamed
NOUN
  1. foam or froth on the sea
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How To Use spume In A Sentence

  • Billows of spume from the Irish Sea bash the seawall, misting a horizon commanded by the Big One.
  • As further proof of this there was a continuous drift of wind-blown spume shooting over us like blobs of candy floss.
  • In spite of the flying spume he could see the incoming seas and he could see the Caledonia as if it was daylight. LET NOT THE DEEP
  • Where the dull thunder and the tossing spray warned us from sunken reefs, we heard the harsh challenges of gulls; where the pallid surf twisted in yellow coils of spume above the bar, the singing sands murmured of treachery and secrets of lost souls agasp in the throes of silent undertows. In Search of the Unknown
  • At Dulwich is a painting, Hero and Leandro for Christopher Marlowe, that is a white misty spume of oceanic spray assailed by a bloody smear of red. Cy Twombly - an appreciation: Paintings about sex and death
  • The outboard motor growled to life and our outrigger kept us on an even keel while sea-birds sat on sharp, spume-glistening rocks, watching our heaving progress with mild interest.
  • The rest of the time -- fog, spume and relentless, gray oppressive motherhumping rain. Fortune's Stanley Bing: How Climate Change Is Screwing With Your Average Business Traveler
  • Today, the waves are no more than white flecks of spume, gently nudging their way to shore.
  • This spume drove masthead high, and higher, horizontally, above the surface of the sea. A LITTLE ACCOUNTWITH SWITHIN HALL
  • Lightening crashed, thunder rolled, ash and molten lava spumed from the mountains.
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