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How to use the word Plume in a Sentence?

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Right now, there is no plume, there is no product being off-gassed from the fire itself, what we have coming off of it is mainly a white smoke or some steam. We have no plume. We have a slight wind, which is kind of pushing things out.

Richmond Fire Chief Tim Brown

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In this case, because we were talking about essentially ingredients that go into latex paint, we would have been able to see a kind of white plume under the river surface.

Michael Carroll

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For lingerie and sleepwear, La Perla is a long-standing favorite for bras, underwear, and slips, as a family, I also love Petite Plume's super cozy pajama sets for me, my husband, and the kids.

Rachel Zoe

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Plume collapses occur when the heat generated at the surface by The Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak fire is no longer sufficient to maintain an updraft, it could be because of the fire running out of fuel, or shading of the solar insolation, or any number of reasons, but the energy at the surface is cut and the column collapses due to its own weight and gravity.

Makoto Moore

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Air conditions are expected to worsen this weekend as a massive plume of wildfire smoke from Northern California fires approaches Colorado from The West. Impacts will begin to be felt as early as Friday afternoon with smoke spreading across the state over the weekend.

Scott Landes

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The combination of high air change rates and high-quality filters... will greatly reduce the amount of virus that can build up in the air. Thus, it is unlikely that people will be exposed to elevated levels of virus in cabins and public indoor spaces, if this is the case, then the biggest risk comes from being in close proximity, within the exhaled respiratory plume of an infected individual.

Linsey Marr

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We were getting status updates so we knew there were high acuity patients, very, very critical patients, but in the back of our mind we could see a massive plume of [ smoke ] coming from White Island, but as our experience sort of shows, we sort of remain very open-minded, because situations always evolve.

Michael Schade

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Photographs really helped highlight the plight (of Rohingya refugees), as a photojournalist you need to capture everything in one frame ... In that picture you can see the plume of smoke, the boat, the refugees ... All the elements were there to tell the story.

Danish Siddiqui

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We continue to see dead and dying fish, people using the Kentucky River in the area of the plume will see dead fish and may smell them.

Jim Mura

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

This is the northern edge of the plume.

Gay Sheffield

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We were fortunate there were good winds and vertical mixing that allowed the plume to rise and disperse more readily.

Daniel Cohan

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We understand and commiserate with our community and visitors about the prolonged closure, but we can not provide safe access to the Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii section of the park as long as these very unpredictable dangers threaten the safety of park staff and visitors, unlike lava, which you can see coming and avoid, we can not see or predict earthquakes, nor can we foresee a summit explosion, but both threats continue. HAWAII'S KIM VOWS TO REBUILD FROM VOLCANO WITH HELP OF FEMA, AS SCIENTISTS SAY THE WORST IS YET TO COME Damage to Jaggar Museum overlook following 5.5 magnitude earthquake on June 3, 2018. ( NPS Photo) The summit area in particular has been also struck by several earthquakes that have damaged at least three park buildings, fractured park roads, and snapped water lines, according to the National Park Service. A magnitude 5.5 earthquake rattled the summit area at 3:50 p.m. on June 3, cracking the overlook deck at Jaggar Museum. Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii RANKED AMONG TOP 10 MOST DANGEROUS IN US A large plume of ash after an earthquake near the summit of Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii volcano on May 25, 2018. ( NPS Photo) Over the weekend, the U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reported more than 500 earthquakes in a 24-hour period – the most ever measured by HVO scientists.

Park Superintendent Cindy Orlando

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Laze is formed when hot lava hits the ocean sending hydrochloric acid and steam with fine glass particles into the air, health hazards of laze include lung, eye and skin irritation. Be aware that the laze plume travels with the wind and can change direction without warning.

Civil Defense Agency

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

It instantly didn't look good, there was a big plume of smoke, and then (another) big plume of smoke came from the Honda. I could see the fireball.

Missouri State Trooper Jim Thuss

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The smoke plume is diminishing rapidly.

Hillsborough Mayor Frank Delcore

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

That would have been powerful enough to lift a good-size dust plume.

Nic Loyd

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It is a huge danger, if they breach, if there's a derailment in the heart of my town and there's a breach of tank cars, there can be a plume of flame high into the sky.

Village President Karen Darch

Found on CNN
8 years ago

By Fate full many a heart has been undone, And many a sprightly rose made woe-begone; Plume thee not on thy lusty youth and strength: Full many a bud is blasted ere its bloom.

Omar Khayyam

added by anonymous
12 years ago

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