I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
white
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Dawn came slowly, uncertainly, with first, the white foam on the huge breaking waves becoming more noticeable.
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Salt water, beaten into a white sea foam , collides into the granite with each swell.
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The shallows lashed themselves to white foam over the limestone boulders of the valley floor.
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Hardly had this disappeared, when a lowering mass of white foam was seen rapidly approaching the vessel.
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Perhaps swollen by rain, the river rushed into the sea in a torrent of white foam and spray.
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The day was full of hard sunlight, meager clouds looking like white foam just beginning to evaporate.
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Then he recognised the darker mass of the dinghy against the white foam .
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Large waves, taking form; the white foam crests are more extensive everywhere.
■ NOUN
mattress
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Spring and foam mattresses are a fairly new innovation, arguably combining the best of both worlds.
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A foam mattress supports the body with foam.
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A foam mattress was still saturated and a bottle of Johnson's Baby Sun Block was unreadable because of the blood.
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She remembered the two men kneeling beside the chef and heaving him on to the foam mattress .
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Inside the room, on a floor of crooked planks, was a foam mattress and a television.
rubber
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Brassieres upholstered with foam rubber were produced as beauty aids even for the well-endowed and even for prepubescent girls.
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We just argued about it loudly and wore the T-shirts and big foam rubber fingers.
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Beneath a layer of foam rubber there was a dark brown carpet of coffee beans.
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They just ate the foam rubber mattress cover.
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Doreen's hair was a wig and the bosoms were foam rubber .
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Standing it on a block of foam rubber , filter matting, or a piece of polystyrene tile can also prove effective.
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Her legs felt like foam rubber .
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The foam rubber squeaked beneath her weight.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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foam packing material
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a dirty foam mattress
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The fire extinguisher uses a chemical foam rather than water.
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White foam from the top of the waves left lines on the beach.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And I'd kiss her sniggers away; shaving foam on her face, in her hair.
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The grypesh swam out after them, and there were battles fought there in a welter of blood and foam .
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There are still thousands of pieces of furniture in the second hand market containing the old-style foam .
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Uses Clinique cosmetics and Ortho contraceptive foam .
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
mouth
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She says he was shaking and foaming at the mouth - she was terrified.
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Stop foaming at the mouth , Buchholz, they would say.
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Their heads thrash about on the bloodied floor, gnashing their teeth and foaming at the mouth .
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They just chewed it up and spit it out, foaming rubber at the mouth .
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Rain swilled and foamed in its open mouth as it looked at the churning black clouds and the eruptions of fractured lightning.
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Exit char, foaming at the mouth .
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By then his friend was sweating, breathing rapidly and foaming at the mouth , and finally had a fit.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Beat the cream until it foams.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A big, foaming glass of... sulfur.
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Below, the water foamed and whispered.
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It was past splashing and foaming.
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The combustion melts the pumice, the hot gases foam it up, and the hot foam fills the mould in seconds.
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The violent foaming seas mesmerized them all.