spindrift

IPA: spˈɪndrˈɪft

noun

  • (nautical) Sea spray (clouds of water droplets) blown from the tops of waves by the wind and whipped along the surface of the sea.
  • (by extension) Clouds of sand, snow, etc., whipped along the ground by the wind.
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Examples of "spindrift" in Sentences

  • In the spindrift orb to grow or char strange wings.
  • Poor visibility on Mt Keen due to snow and spindrift.
  • The air was filled with spindrift like a fog or spray.
  • Spindrift, if you have any decency, you will leave my edit for all to view.
  • This "spindrift" (6) cuts to the marrow with its chilling mist, its clarifying ambiguity.
  • Each boxcar had an identical little vortex of spindrift coming off the trailing edge of the roof – really pretty under the slate gray dawn.
  • My face was stung to severe pain by the high-driving spindrift, and I had a feeling that the wind was blowing the cobwebs out of my sleep-starved brain.
  • And the first detailed drops splashing at the bottom of the goblet with a scatter of spindrift, each fleck embellished with the finicky rigor of some precisionist painting.
  • He does control a lot of things, but so much of it takes time to enact that really, for much of his job, he is helpless in the spindrift of what the previous administration did.
  • Finally, acknowledge that you're going to miss things, because your head is going to wind up very cluttered with spindrift and nonsense and other things that didn't make the page.

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