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Definition of "spindrift" []

  • Windblown sea spray. Also called spoondrift. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "spindrift" in a sentence
  • "This "spindrift" (6) cuts to the marrow with its chilling mist, its clarifying ambiguity."
  • "The air was filled with spindrift like a fog or spray."
  • "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."