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  • adjective Resembling foam; foamy.

Etymologies

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foam +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Halliburton also decried the report, in which it was faulted for using too much nitrogen in a foamlike cement mixture that BP's team said was "very likely unstable" and that one investigator compared to shaving cream going flat.

    In its report on the gulf oil spill, BP spreads the blame 2010

  • It's made with Nerf, the famous foamlike material owned by Hasbro.

    Hitched to a Star 2008

  • In 2006, for instance, Hasbro signed a licensing agreement with Performance Designed Products LLC, a small videogame-accessories maker, allowing the company to produce a game controller made with Nerf, the famous foamlike material.

    Hitched to a Star 2008

  • All was lovely and foamlike above her, and there was a scent of old trunks, and of nettles.

    To Let 2004

  • If one imagined it as a bubbling, foamlike mass (almost hopelessly misleading, yet a first approximation to the truth) then those bubbles were ...

    The Songs of Distant Earth Clarke, Arthur C. 1986

  • Or that it survives there in an almost unrecognizable foamlike form.

    RELATIVITY BANESH HOFFMANN 1968

  • All was lovely and foamlike above her, and there was a scent of old trunks, and of nettles.

    The Forsyte Saga, Volume III. Awakening To Let John Galsworthy 1900

  • All was lovely and foamlike above her, and there was a scent of old trunks, and of nettles.

    The Forsyte Saga - Complete John Galsworthy 1900

  • All was lovely and foamlike above her, and there was a scent of old trunks, and of nettles.

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • Hissing with foamlike noise when pressed and pierced

    Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne, 1882

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