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Example sentences for "frothy"

Lexicographically close words:
frosty; froth; frothed; frothing; froths; frou; frough; frow; froward; frowardness
  1. After a minute’s parley with Will, the good-humoured young woman brought out a jug of fresh milk, still frothy from the cow, and poured it out for them liberally in a blue stoneware mug.

  2. I beg your pardon," said I, "if I was frothy and conceited; it ill becomes a child like me to be so.

  3. If the gentleman wishes to increase his stores of party abuse and frothy violence, if he has a determined proclivity to such pursuits, there are treasures of that sort south of the Potomac, much to his taste, yet untouched.

  4. The iron rowels into frothy foam he bit.

  5. Frothy matter raised on liquids by boiling, effervescence, or agitation; froth; foam; scum.

  6. A substance resembling starch, found in the green frothy scum formed on the surface of stagnant water.

  7. His only purpose was to escape an hour of the frothy vaporings of the poor, young creature who believed herself so interested in art and letters, and who succeeded so admirably in expressing the spirit of her environment and training.

  8. It gave me the impression of a frothy fizzing in the water.

  9. Back they fled through the dusk, a coughing, blinded crowd, leaving behind them hundreds of their comrades gasping out their lives or lying dead with blue faces and frothy lips.

  10. I beg your pardon," said I, "if I was frothy and conceited, it ill becomes a child like me to be so.

  11. In frothy clusters down the road The blooming elders lean, With dripping buds that shine like pearls Within a sea of green.

  12. A row of bubbles slowly crossed the belt of shade, stopped and made a frothy patch, and then lengthened out.

  13. He beat up some frothy liquor in a jug and when he filled the big glasses Lister felt disturbed, for he knew Brown and had noted the quantity of gin the negro used.

  14. Of the Schematisme or Texture of Cork, and of the Cells and Pores of some other such frothy Bodies.

  15. I beg your pardon,' said I, 'if I was frothy and conceited; it ill becomes a child like me to be so.

  16. They saw the frothy bubbles floating over the spot--some of them reddish with the blood of the waterbuck--but the current soon carried them away, and the river glided past smooth and silent as if no such commotion had occurred in its waters.

  17. He could only see that the water was waving with eddies and covered with frothy bubbles.

  18. He was sarcastic sometimes, but not frequently; not frothy or petulant, but cool and vitriolic.

  19. Evans sat with his eyes half closed, watching the frothy breakwater of the coral creep nearer and nearer.

  20. Unwholesome for him to be always staring at the frothy water running away from the stern.

  21. Scratches glass; affords no water by calcination; fusible at the blow-pipe into a frothy bead; soluble in muriatic acid; solution affords a copious precipitate with oxalate of ammonia.

  22. Into a pan so mounted, 50 pounds of a good oil soap of any kind are put (for a tallow soap does not become frothy enough), and melted by proper heat, with the addition of 3 or 4 pounds of water.

  23. But before putting it into the butt, it should be diffused through a considerable volume of the beer with a whisk, till a frothy head be raised upon it.

  24. The boiling becomes progressively less tumultuous, the frothy mass subsides, the paste grows transparent, and it gradually thickens.

  25. The continued fermentation in the stomach and the intestines causes a coffee colored material of a frothy character to purge from the mouth.

  26. This is recognized by a frothy coffee colored purge from the mouth or nose caused by pressure in the stomach, due to putrefactive bacteria, and their action on proteid food substances which are present in the stomach.

  27. If this fluid is a brownish coffee-like substance, it signifies it is coming from the stomach, but if it is a bloody frothy mixture it signifies it is coming from the lungs.

  28. The gas will force the liquefied matter, of a bloody, frothy color out through the respiratory tract.

  29. The mixture soon acquires consistence, and becomes frothy and viscid.

  30. When a cow is attacked with this epizootic disease, the first noticeable symptoms are generally tenderness and flabbiness of the udder, and a frothy condition of the milk.

  31. In the language of the cellar, malt liquors are said to be 'up' when they are well charged with gaseous matter, and bear a frothy head.

  32. It is scarcely at all frothy but extremely viscid and adhesive, and the vessel which contains it may often be overturned without its escaping.

  33. This is added to thin and vapid beer to make it bear a frothy head.

  34. This frothy and frenzied Republic is at that ebb where national "extreme unction" must be administered speedily, else the sufferer will pass away from the theatre of sublunary things without the benefit of clergy.

  35. By an instinct of self-preservation, the electors, especially in the country districts, turned to the men of property and local influence as those who were most likely to save them from the frothy followers of Gambetta.

  36. However much frothy talkers in their clubs may decry the claims of national prestige, no great statesman has ever underrated their importance.

  37. The rumble of the surf came in a deep undertone through the throb of the engine, and the launch sped on with a frothy wave curling at her bows.

  38. Farther on, he could see the black end of the mole washed by frothy surf.

  39. Green copperas, a mineral substance obtained from iron, is much used to give the porter a frothy top.

  40. Treacle is likewise employed to give sweetness and consistency; while to give beer a frothy surface, sulphate of iron and alum are had recourse to.

  41. If with a sharp knife we now cut downward through and across the mass, we find our tuft to be a mere frothy shell containing two hollow compartments, with a thin central partition extending through the whole length of the cavity.

  42. Illustration] Now what is the object of this frothy pavilion?

  43. She plunged through them, scooping their broken crests on board, and by and by the water ahead grew yellow and marked by frothy lines.

  44. Then the bowsprit swung high above the turmoil and the water blew away in streams from the canvas while a frothy cataract poured aft down the uplifted deck.

  45. In some places their length and regularity indicated depth of water, but, for the most part, they boiled in frothy confusion across the shoals.

  46. Whatever explanation may be given of the necessity for this semi-aerial, semi-liquid medium, it is easy to verify the fact that the larva of the Aphrophora cannot live long out of its frothy envelope.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "frothy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    airy; asinine; brave; bravura; braw; bubbly; daring; dashing; downy; effervescent; empty; ethereal; fatuous; feathery; flashing; flashy; flaunting; flighty; flimsy; fluffy; foamy; foolish; fribble; frilly; frivolous; frothy; futile; gallant; gay; glittering; heady; idle; inane; jaunty; light; nugatory; otiose; rakish; shallow; showy; silly; slender; slight; soapy; souffle; splashy; sporty; superficial; trifling; trite; trivial; vacuous; vain; vapid; volatile; weightless; windy; yeasty