SURF in a Sentence

Learn SURF from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
18 example sentences for SURF, such as:
1. We were almost deafened by the crash/roar of the surf.
2. They struggled against the surf of wind, through deep snow.
3. All night he was lulled by the melancholy noise of the surf.
4. A roaring sound like the breaking of surf rose from the crowd.
5. We asked the surfing champion what first drew him to the sport.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SURF
surf
 v.  ride the waves of the sea with a surfboard
 v.  look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular
Classic Sentence:
1  The whitewashed brick plantation house seemed an island set in a wild red sea, a sea of spiraling, curving, crescent billows petrified suddenly at the moment when the pink-tipped waves were breaking into surf.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  A roaring sound like the breaking of surf rose from the crowd.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
3  They struggled against the surf of wind, through deep snow.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  She pictured herself looking at Emerson's manse, bathing in a surf of jade and ivory, wearing a trottoir and a summer fur, meeting an aristocratic Stranger.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  "Why should I go down to bathe at the very end of the season when I haven't been in the surf all summer," replied the woman, disagreeably.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVI
6  Here and there grayish-whitish specks showed up, clustered inside the white surf, with a flag flying above them perhaps.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
7  Some, I heard, got drowned in the surf; but whether they did or not, nobody seemed particularly to care.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
8  The voice of the surf heard now and then was a positive pleasure, like the speech of a brother.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
9  Singing comes cheap to those who do not pay for it, and all this is done at the cost of one whose bones lie rotting in some wilderness or grinding to powder in the surf.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK I
10  When, however, he got within earshot, he began to hear the surf thundering up against the rocks, for the swell still broke against them with a terrific roar.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK V
11  All night he was lulled by the melancholy noise of the surf.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 85. The Journey.
12  As the high watery walls came rolling in, and, at their highest, tumbled into surf, they looked as if the least would engulf the town.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 55. TEMPEST
13  when Orion rising on us through the cloudrack with sudden surf bore us on blind shoals, and scattered us afar with his boisterous gales and whelming brine over waves and trackless reefs.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
Example Sentence:
1  Fortunately, a surf club race was about to start and there was a lifesaver on the beach.
2  We were almost deafened by the crash/roar of the surf.
3  Whether you are a man or woman surfing around and socializing on the web, the choice of doing it safely and securely is yours.
4  He also said the incident, which led to a lengthy operation to repair several deep lacerations to his left side, will not keep him from surfing again.
5  We asked the surfing champion what first drew him to the sport.