Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: foaming
IPA transcription: [f'oʊmɪŋ]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: foaming, foamy, frothing
    Meaning: producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease; "the rabid animal's frothing mouth"
  • Synonyms: bubbling, bubbly, foaming, foamy, frothy, effervescing, spumy
    Meaning: emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation; "bubbling champagne"; "foamy (or frothy) beer"
Usage examples
  • Then the hunters came tearing up on their foaming horses.
  • This time they shall not escape.' And he galloped off, foaming with anger.
  • He is hauled into the presence of the foaming customer, cursed, and sacked.
  • The eye could hardly tell where the snowy ridges ended and the foaming waves began.
  • They found him at the bottom of the cellar steps, writhing in convulsions and foaming at the mouth.
  • He whistled and whistled until all birdland and even mankind heard, for the farmer paused at his kitchen door, with his pails of foaming milk, and called to his wife:
  • I heard quick, heavy pantings, as of some great living thing; and with this there came the noise of regular movements in the water, and the foaming and gurgling of waves.
  • We caught him flying, all smoking and foaming with rage, from the burning stables of the Castle Berlifitzing. Supposing him to have belonged to the old Count's stud of foreign horses, we led him back as an estray.
  • At first they came scatteringly, riding the foaming waves end-on, and sometimes colliding with the stone piers of the bridge with sufficient force to split the unhewn timbers from end to end, some being laid open as neatly as though done with axe and wedge.
  • I dashed the spectacles violently to the ground, and, leaping to my feet, stood erect in the middle of the floor, confronting Mrs. Simpson, with my arms set a-kimbo, and grinning and foaming, but, at the same time, utterly speechless with terror and with rage.