What is "frothing"

Usage examples of "frothing".

I remember seeing the cage sway violently and watching the brown flood fall with slow deliberation down the fault, frothing and spouting great gouts of white as it thundered against ledges and outcrops, smashing away great sections of the rock face with its force, flinging them outwards and down.

And there you found the reverse apartheid of the drug economy, with the whites, in their frothing melee of malt beer, keeping the given distance from the sober but hot-faced brothers, who tended their Lucozades and Ribenas on the streetside bar.

The only occasion when this would change would be in the event of one of the lookouts spotting the telltale signs of a whale, broaching in a gren-burst of frothing white spray and foam.

On the authority of such assays its newspaper correspondents were frothing about rock worth four and seven thousand dollars a ton!

Anne's lifelong vision of Caerlaverock was colored with imaginings of feudal knights, the splendid castle itself under siege time and again by the hated English with battering rams, slings, and hundreds of men clad in metal armor galloping about on frothing steeds--her ancestors charging up and down stone stairs by way of secret passages known only to a true Maxwell.

Finally, Mister JayMac sent Muscles, Curriden, Fanning, and Sudikoff out there—at some peril, for the crowd started catcalling at once—to subdue Hoey and drag him, thrashing and frothing, if need be, into the clubhouse.

Over the frothing objections of Cleo Rio's attorneys, an official autopsy was ordered.

What strange voyages, downward through its glaucous depths, upwards to its boiling and frothing surface, wafted by tides, driven by tempests, disparted by rude agencies.

Screaming with rage and frothing at the mouth it struck wildly with its heavy claws, but Tanar had learned certain things from David Innes that men of the stone age ordinarily do not know, for David had taught him, as he had taught many another young Pellucidarian, the art of self-defense, including boxing, wrestling and jiu-jitsu, and now again they came into good stead as they had upon other occasions since he had mastered them and once more he gave thanks for the fortunate circumstance that had brought David Innes from the outer crust to Pellucidar to direct the destinies of its human race as first emperor.

In its glare, Jan saw that the water running through the camp had become a frothing river, tipping over the camp stove and surging on down the valley.

But that was one isolated borough, where people were actually listening to what was said in the course of a fiercely contested election, and not simply the sound and fury frothing on the surface.

Janet had set before them ripe blackberries, gooseberry tart, rhubarb and pink quinces in honeyed syrup, bread and butter, scrambled eggs, cream and honey, green cheese flecked with sage, frothing milk, mellow, yellow mead, and dandelion wine.

When they see a growling dog frothing up white stuff as he attacks them, Courtney and Denise will drop dead!

She lay propped mightily on pillows with Papa's elegant bandage wrappings showing through the front of her kimono and her fresh-washed hair frothing like egg whites above her naked, unpainted face.

The founts gushed harder as they descended—water pressure, Malenfant thought—and soon the spiral canals were filled with bubbling, frothing liquid, which took away some of the staleness of the still air of the well.