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spindrift

[ UK /spˈɪndɹɪft/ ]
NOUN
  1. spray blown up from the surface of the sea

How To Use spindrift In A Sentence

  • Plumes of spindrift were scouring the top, leaving nothing but a swooping white cleaver of ice.
  • 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. CHAPTER XII
  • 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. Underworld
  • The rocks were encased in crusted snow and the wind was driving spindrift across the open slopes.
  • Very often, it was hard to see, with particles of spindrift rattling against his face mask and goggles. THE BROKEN GOD
  • And if that threatened squall should burst its bonds and come shrieking and howling in fury across the surface of the sea, scourging it into a mad turmoil of foaming, leaping water and blinding spindrift, while the burnt-out crew of the schooner were making their passage across to the _Mercury_, it might be very bad for them; for even should they be fortunate enough to avoid capsizal, it might be exceedingly difficult, if not altogether impossible, for the ship, smitten and bowed down by the might of the tempest, to pause and pick them up. Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship
  • Because of the wind and the spindrift stinging his eyes, he was having trouble seeing. THE BROKEN GOD
  • She was no more to him than spindrift torn from a storm wave. TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH
  • Anachronisms and nautical howlers bombard the reader like spindrift in a Force 10 gale.
  • Everyone in England should see it from the deck of a wooden sailing ship, with a chill on the air and the taste of spindrift on their lips.
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