Meanings of broke white in English

The beach was wide and sandy and a shallow sea broke white-topped waves along it in a homely rhythm.

Beyond that, the sea broke white against the base of the South Needle, an Elderglass-mortared stone breakwater nearly three-quarters of a mile in length.

Westward, waves broke white and just audible on the great curving reefs that heralded the eventual rise of the Kossuth gulf coastline further south.

"Brother," he said as the waves broke white and cold around their ankles, "what is dead can never die."