Usage of "soapsuds" | TermGallery

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The froth produced by soaps or detergents.

Usage of soapsuds in inglés

Flora, her hands buried deep in the soapsuds, looked at him round-eyed. 
 The Long Shadow 

After standing fifteen or twenty minutes, add three gallons of common soapsuds. 
 Success with Small Fruits 

There was still a thin sheath of gray soapsuds clinging to them. 
 The stand 

He adjusted his stained clothes, brushed soapsuds from his lapels, glanced about. 
 Orb Sceptre Throne 

The only ones I have ever been in smelt so much of soapsuds. 
 The Girl at Cobhurst 

This foam is of a greyish white, slightly viscous, and almost like soapsuds. 
 Social Life in the Insect World 

The three of us kids are in a bathtub piled high with soapsuds. 
 The art of mending: a novel 

One of them was holding a hose, the other a bucket of soapsuds. 
 IT 

Nardo, every time he washes his hands, makes a great sea of soapsuds. 
 Stories from the Pentamerone 

One saucer contains a gold ring, one soapsuds, one is empty. 
 Current Superstitions / Collected from the Oral Tradition of Eng... 

My mother was at the sink, hands buried in a cloud of soapsuds. 
 Revival 

She dried her hands, which were red under the white soapsuds. 
 L'Assommoir 

That we are sitting up to the elbows in soapsuds. 
 The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V... 

In the middle of the floor was a tub containing Miss Wishart mid-deep in soapsuds. 
 Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XV... 

Upon that the General fell to scrubbing himself-incidentally ,tosending soapsuds flying in every direction. 
 Dead Souls 

Strong soapsuds should be mixed with considerable rinsing water to escape excessive content of alkali. 
 One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered 