Meaning of astream | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Streaming, flowing (of a liquid, object blown by wind, light, sound).
   not-comparable
2. Having something flowing from, down or along it; covered (with something flowing).
   not-comparable

Examples

“The biker sped by, hair astream from under her helmet.”

“Glorious the northern lights astream;”

“[…] as a finger of smoke / Astream over woodland”

“1968, Donald G. Payne (as Donald Gordon), The Golden Oyster, New York: William Morrow, 1968, Prologue, p. 14, […] oil astream from his engine, he came on till a burst of incendiaries hit him flush in the fuel tank.”

“The charioteer […] / His left hand lopped […] / Bronze reins astream in his right,”

“Past the finish line, she doubled over panting, her hair astream with sweat.”

“There the swishing tailed cows stand with mouths all astream,”

“1958, Samuel Beckett (translator), “Morning” by José Manuel Martínez Navarrete, in Octavio Paz (ed.), An Anthology of Mexican Poetry, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, p. 92, In an instant / the world entire is astream with joy.”

“[…] he twisted his head sharply and stared at the dark windows astream with rain,”

“the causeways to Miami Beach all astream with traffic”

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