Example sentences for: surf

How can you use “surf” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The earliest term for a swimmer who preferred swimming in the surf to swimming in the baths at, for instance, Coogee was surf-bather [1906].

  • Of Surf and Such

  • It's also a common observation now, first voiced, I think, by our saintly editor Michael Kinsley, that it only takes about fifteen minutes for those of us in the DC media-warp, to channel surf before we stumble across someone we know.

  • The Manly maidens shoot the surf, Or bake their bingies on the shingly shore.

  • Surf is first found in 1685, on the coast of India and, bearing a strong resemblance to suff , found 100 years earlier on the same coast and with much the same meaning, may be presumed to be a variant form of the same word; it may also be assumed to be of Indian origin.


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