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frothy water — especially from rapids (water flowing rapidly downhill)- We went white water rafting.
white water = frothy water — especially from rapids (water flowing rapidly down hill)
- Spray struck their faces as they hit the white water.Scott Westerfeld -- Uglies
- But the reality was that for some years now he had been hurled along on the white water of Norman Cousins' ferocious energy.John Hersey -- Hiroshima
- In the stairwell, the floors and stairs below were a white-water river, a vortex of cascading waves.Ransom Riggs -- Hollow City
- "You don't have milk, you have white water.Nora Roberts -- Blood Brothers
- White-water rafting in the moat?Jojo Moyes -- Me Before You
- ] We dropped over a stretch of white water—or red water—and swerved to avoid a rock the size of Paddington Station.Rick Riordan -- The Red Pyramid
- I ate the white meal, drank the white water, received the white smiles and wondered how it could all be.John Howard Griffin -- Black Like Me
- The white water tower was glazed pink and the grass was an unnatural green as if it were turning to glass.Flannery O'Connor -- A Good Man is Hard to Find AND OTHER STORIES
- The direwolf plunged in after him, and the white water turned red where they had vanished.George R.R. Martin -- A Game of Thrones
- Toilets in modern water closets rise up from the floor like white water lilies.Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- "White-water rafting," Mae answered.Dave Eggers -- The Circle
- In the white water at the foot of the dam it was deep.Ernest Hemingway -- The Sun Also Rises
- March showed a white-water stream rushing pell-mell between snowy banks.Stephen King -- Misery
- Miriam Sassburger mixed the cocktails in one of those dismal, nakedly white water-pitchers which exist only in hotels.Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt
- The shade of the massive white water tower shielded us from Summerville, but the day didn't seem so sunny anymore.Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl -- Beautiful Creatures
- They were standing at the edge of a bubbling brook that cut through the trees and fed into an octagonal pond dappled with white water lilies.Micheal Scott -- The Alchemyst
- An hour later, they had topped the ridge and hiked beyond the dangerous white water to where the Gaena River was once again calm and glassy.Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
- In his hands he carried on a large leaf as on a tray a small pile of white water-lilies.J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Fellowship of the Ring
- There was a small pool at the end of the river, dammed back by sand and full of white water-lilies and needle-like reeds.William Golding -- Lord of the Flies
white water = frothy water (like in rapids)