How to Use whitecap in a Sentence

whitecap

noun

• Big winds and puffy clouds, whitecaps on the bay and talk about snow in the hills.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Feb. 2023
• When the wind picks up, there are even waves and whitecaps.
  — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2023
• Wind throbbed in ears, and whipped up whitecaps on the Potomac River.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2023
• At about 3 p.m., the camera showed the storm’s approach: whitecaps foaming as wind came over the bay, and beyond that rain at the far side of the bridge.
  — Brian Schutmaat, Smithsonian, 29 June 2017
• The surf was high, with some whitecaps forming in Belfast Harbor and Penobscot Bay.
  — Justine McDaniel, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
• The current is a nice speed, just short of creating whitecaps.
  — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• Whitecaps: Striker Fredy Montero was the team’s player of the month in April with four goals in five games and an assist.
  — John Meyer, The Denver Post, 4 May 2017
• The wind also creates whitecaps, making it even harder to spot the whales.
  — Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 26 May 2017
• In cars, on foot, in the sea The Pacific off Lahaina sparkles blue during the day and, when the winds kick up, cottony whitecaps stretch to the horizon.
  — Joshua Partlow, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2023
• When dealing with whitecaps and wind, our sonar is not as effective.
  — USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2023
• Granton told the passengers to look for whitecaps, where whales might be breaking the water’s surface.
  — Nina Agrawal, latimes.com, 18 Aug. 2017
• The promise of kiteboarding is that a wind strong enough to draw small whitecaps from the water can take you on a magic-carpet ride.
  — James Somers, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2019
• By midmorning, winds had changed course and were blowing from the south, turning the bay into a cauldron of whitecaps.
  — José De Córdoba and, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2017
• At midnight, a strong wind blowing from the northeast raised whitecaps in the Dover Strait and high waves swept the beaches, and showed no signs of moderating.
  — Ann Zaniewski, Detroit Free Press, 5 June 2019
• With palm trees, a wide, flat beach, and whitecaps, this is classic California.
  — Karen Ruffini, Travel + Leisure, 5 Mar. 2023
• Down below was a vast body of water, the surface broken at intervals by whitecaps.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2022
• Downed trees, hurricane force winds, whitecaps on the bay and widespread power outages were the supporting cast of a drama that played up and down the Golden State.
  — Kristin Lam, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2019
• But suddenly just after 7 p.m., whitecaps rapidly appeared on the water and winds increased, the NTSB said.
  — Paulina Dedaj, Fox News, 28 July 2018
• The previous day, the massive winds had churned the ocean up to IMAX proportions, crumbling slabs of icy whitecaps that exploded when the onshore winds threw them onto the rocky coast.
  — Billy Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2018
• The Los Angeles River roared to life, spewing whitecaps as water churned along the concrete channel.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2023
• Local media broadcast video of whitecap waves churning the city’s normally placid canals of Xochimilco as boats bobbed up and down.
  — Mark Stevenson, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2017
• Local media broadcast video of whitecap waves churning the city's normally placid canals of Xochimilco as boats bobbed up and down.
  — Mark Stevenson, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2017
• The thing about wave elections is that its only really when the party in power comes to believe one is coming that the whitecaps really start forming.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 25 May 2017
• When the breeze kicks up, Tahoe Vista blossoms with colorful kites attached to boards piloted by daredevil kiteboarders, scooting about the whitecaps.
  — Dino Vournas, The Mercury News, 21 May 2017
• But as quickly as the national craziness over aerial phenomena began, the military packed up and went home, leaving the answers encased in Arctic ice and under the whitecaps of Lake Huron.
  — Katie Rogers, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Aug 2024