How To Use Spindrift In A Sentence
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Plumes of spindrift were scouring the top, leaving nothing but a swooping white cleaver of ice.
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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
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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
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The rocks were encased in crusted snow and the wind was driving spindrift across the open slopes.
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Very often, it was hard to see, with particles of spindrift rattling against his face mask and goggles.
THE BROKEN GOD
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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
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Because of the wind and the spindrift stinging his eyes, he was having trouble seeing.
THE BROKEN GOD
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She was no more to him than spindrift torn from a storm wave.
TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH
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Anachronisms and nautical howlers bombard the reader like spindrift in a Force 10 gale.
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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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Its fury is unimaginable, white spindrift foaming and tumbling as Christopher shouts orders above the howling wind.
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At the top there was blue sky, but wind enough to lick fine spindrift snow from the lips of waist-deep drifts.
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Its contents smelled of Scottish mildew and stone, and spindrift, and stevedore's spilt beer, and untreated crate wood, and alien scents of faraway cargo, the wafture of seas and continents.
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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.
Miscellaneous F: 10/10/2006
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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.
Seanan_mcguire: Thoughts on Writing #30: Continuity Trapper Keeper.
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The rocks were encased in crusted snow and the wind was driving spindrift across the open slopes.
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He peered through the white spindrift swirling all around him.
THE BROKEN GOD
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This "spindrift" (6) cuts to the marrow with its chilling mist, its clarifying ambiguity.
A Motley Vision
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We climb into a headwind that lashes spindrift in our eyes, blurring our vision with sweeping clouds of ice.
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Erigeron Spindrift makes growing ordinary karvinskianus pointless!
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The cold, soft spindrift blew into my face as I crouched beside a boulder trying to strap crampons to my boots with frozen fingers.
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With childlike optimism, I'd pitched our tarp-tent as I would have in Colorado timber, and spindrift had squirted through every crack, coating everything with a layer of rime and soaking our sleeping bag.
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‘One is monosyllabic, the other tetrasyllable,’ Spindrift begins.
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Sitting on the ledge, looking up at the piles of spindrift snow just waiting to pour down my collar and into my gloves, I realized that I was maybe done for the day.
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I worked my way up, dutifully cleaning pro as I went and complaining loudly to no one in particular about the spindrift, steam and melt water on my glasses.
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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
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From the dark geometrical precision of its bridge, Ghyll Beck lopes downhill in long slants of water pelting spindrift spray and flooding, pure white, across the wide flat stones at the base of the waterfall.
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In the spindrift orb to grow or char strange wings.
Upwards, Into the White Eye Rising
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And through the spindrift the local surfers will don thick wetsuits, boots, gloves and hoods and paddle out into frigid North Atlantic swells to do what we all love best, catch a few waves.
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It's a fine day, the sun shining but the wind blowing spindrift sharp as staples.
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The air was filled with spindrift like a fog or spray.
CHAPTER XXX
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Each boxcar had an identical little vortex of spindrift coming off the trailing edge of the roof – really pretty under the slate gray dawn.
Geminids
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Malcolm still plans to take her on summer searches, however, along with his new rescue dog, a little Lakeland collie cur, Spindrift.
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They're Yorkshiremen, you see, and their impressionable parts have been cured over the centuries, like Baffin Island blubber, by spindrift and coal smoke.
