Usage of "soapsuds" | TermGallery

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The froth produced by soaps or detergents.

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Examples for "lather"

The entire secret society would be in a lather to meet me. 
 Pandemonium 

Six hours later Wilmot came in on a horse covered with lather. 
 The Penalty 

Still I thought I could fulfil the rôle of lather-boy very effectively. 
 Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons: Wesel, Sennelager, Klinge... 

Even when he smears soap lather over them, I don't feel anything. 
 Insurgent 

He was a lather and had a steady job till sickness came. 
 Children of the Tenements 

She shook her hands, which were growing red in the white suds. 
 L'Assommoir 

She threw the suds from her hands and came to the door. 
 Thirty Years in the Itinerancy 

In due time Harrigan drew near, the suds swishing under his brush. 
 Harrigan 

Wilbur, chase the roof off a jug of suds for the Lieutenant. 
 The Sorrows of a Show Girl: A Story of the Great "White Way" 

Burgers, fries and other greasy fare help soak up all the suds. 
 The Guardian 

Uso de soapsuds en 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 