FROTH in a Sentence

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For FROTH, below is one of 17 sentences:
The chair puffed slowly on, slowly surging into the forget-me-nots that rose up in the drive like milk froth, beyond the hazel shadows.

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 Meanings and Examples of FROTH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
froth
 v.  exude or expel foam; make froth or foam and become bubbly
Classic Sentence:
1  The chair puffed slowly on, slowly surging into the forget-me-nots that rose up in the drive like milk froth, beyond the hazel shadows.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
2  Nothing but the froth of the waves could be discerned in the pool below.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together
3  But soon their skins turned cold, for there came a galloping across the moor, and the black mare, dabbled with white froth, went past with trailing bridle and empty saddle.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles
4  His mouth froths, and the froth is the word.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV—CAMBRONNE
5  To be always peaceful does not depend on progress any more than it does on the stream; erect no barriers, cast in no boulders; obstacles make water froth and humanity boil.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
6  The chicken was tough, the tongue too salty, and the chocolate wouldn't froth properly.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
7  But there was a breeze blowing, a choppy, stiff wind that whipped the water into froth.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VII
8  Everything is froth and bubble to you.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
9  Spring had come early that year, with warm quick rains and sudden frothing of pink peach blossoms and dogwood dappling with white stars the dark river swamp and far-off hills.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
10  The green plaid taffeta, frothing with flounces and each flounce edged in green velvet ribbon, was most becoming, in fact her favorite dress, for it darkened her eyes to emerald.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
11  Soon there were five buckets of frothing creamy milk at which many of the animals looked with considerable interest.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
12  Crowds throng towards the corpses and the men wounded to death, the ground fresh with warm slaughter and the swoln runlets of frothing blood.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK NINTH
13  First, two pretty girls, very neatly dressed, served them with chocolate, which was frothed exceedingly well.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXV
Example Sentence:
1  The glass of beer was mostly froth.
2  Shake the drink before serving it to froth it up.
3  Alfred became so vehement in describing what was wrong with the Internal Revenue Service that he began jumping up and down and frothing at the mouth.
4  The waves frothed as they crashed onto the beach.