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Sentence Examples A null response was assigned if the crab did not respond to the odor plume. Don Quixote, covered with shame and out of countenance, ran to pluck the plume from his poor jade's tail, while Sancho did the same for Dapple. But every one or two minutes, the placid water erupts in an explosion of mud, followed by a plume of white steam. The perfect corn snow was ripening in the sun, and a velvet 45 degree pitch dropped below us like a frozen plume of whitewater. As the winds switched to an equatorward direction, coastal upwelling ensued and the Columbia plume was replaced by cold, salty water nearshore. Lasers are notorious for producing copious amounts of noxious smoke or plume as a by-product of vaporization. On the horizon, at ten, twelve and one o'clock are clusters of cooling towers, each with a dark plume, a spooky symmetry of warming. Justin leaped back with all his strength as the luggage pack promptly burst into a plume of flame. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. The wide distribution of the volcanics implies that a mantle plume was present beneath northern Australia in the past. Methane gas plumes are also attributed to at least one plane disappearing, because it exploded when it entered the plume. You can see the vog as a light blue-gray plume which arcs from the volcanic island. And if anonymity is so unimportant, why are we using noms de plume on this board? For some bloggers, a nom de plume might be used when the blogger's real name is phonetically unwieldy or so common as to be undistinguishable. If you'd like to participate but can't use your real name please email me and we'll sort out a nom de plume. The plume contained toxic pollutants, possibly cyanide, from foam, oil, acrylic paints and tyres burnt in the blaze. If you don't want to use your real name, use a nom de plume and briefly explain, for publication, why you don't want to use your real name. Regardless of the type of evacuation system used, the capture device should be placed as close as possible to the source of the plume. At a conference, Grossman heard a presenter claim that the spherules could not have formed from the plume of vaporized rock. The stunt came just days after the Vatican signalled the election of new Pope with a plume of white smoke. Show More Sentences Detecting the missile's body near or through the bright exhaust plume is very challenging, even with a suite of multiwavelength sensors. The whale leaves a trench in the ocean floor and trails a plume of mud behind it as it surfaces. In this model, doming over the mantle plume would lead to extension and generation of small rift grabens. At its height more than 100 firefighters fought the blaze which sent a huge plume of black, acrid smoke billowing 1,000 ft into the air. Bent in two, I lifted my eyes and saw a roiling, black plume of ash and debris ascending into the sky. A plume of acrid smoke rose slowly from what had been a vacuum cleaner only moments before. This is in marked contrast to those reefs close to the mine that are regularly affected by high sediment loads carried by the plume. We propose that both shield and rejuvenescent phase magmas are derived from a lithologically heterogeneous or mantle plume. Another Spit pauses from dogfighting long enough to lend a bomber a plume before yawing away to rejoin its group. As a substitute for sticking her tongue out at me, she took a long drag on the cigarette and blew a plume of smoke toward my face. The creature had a large plume of strands on its head pointing upwards and its body appeared silvery and reflective. Iceland is a segment of mid-ocean ridge domed up above sea level by the plume. An active origin is suggested because volcanism and uplift appear to have preceded rifting, an active plume passing over a large area. A massive plume of smoke was hanging over the city, but the precise location or cause of the blast was not immediately known. There was one other man there, dressed in fine clothes and wearing a maroon hat with an extravagant plume of feathers on the side. The chair back is the embodiment of elegance, suggesting an open plume of feathers supported by lyrical S-shaped side rails. Her head was crowned by a winged helmet with a plume of brightly colored feathers on top. She sighed heavily, a plume of grey smoke and breath condensation dissipating in the air before her. It's hard to make a smoke plume look more threatening than a far-off contrail. Plinian eruptions are those that are dominated by a plume of hot gas and ash. Show More Sentences The researchers believe that the spherules formed as the plume of vaporized rock cooled, condensing as liquefied droplets. Somehow the pilot managed to wrestle the aircraft level and eject, rocketing away on a plume of fire. With the improvement in propellant in the second stage came an increase of thrust plume temperature. Particle-related density gradients were responsible for roughly one-third of the geostrophic velocity shear at the plume edge. Or we could make the impactor pointy, which makes it go deeper down but creates a more columnated plume of material. The convergence point marks a plume centre and possible breakup of a continental fragment from the eastern margin of the Superior Province. The large, mushroom-like plume was caused by a massive fire which ignited over 100 cars at a scrapyard at Dunsink Lane, Finglas. A long red ostrich plume sprouted back from the hat giving him a dapper appearance that befit the captain of a ship. Another application is analysis of plume impingement, the effects of firing of thrusters by one spacecraft on another spacecraft nearby. Tidally influenced plume processes are not as well documented as models of tidally influenced duneform deposition. The pea stalks, dry as tinder, caught quickly and burned merrily, sending a plume of clean white smoke up to catch the wind. The occurrence of penecontemporaneous flood basalt volcanism in the region further suggests that the uplift was caused by a rising mantle plume. Instead, his dull eyes flicked disinterestedly from ice house to ice house, noting the plume of smoke drifting from each. A thermal plume in the northwest part of the lake indicates underlying subaerial fumarolic or hydrothermal activity. The hypsometers can be seen at each lab station, and the closest one actually has a plume of steam escaping from its top. They'd better be quick about it, because a gas plume would cover the area within eight minutes. The turbines shut down suddenly, forcing a high-pressure plume of steam into the air high above the island. A bomb exploded harmlessly a thousand yards away, throwing up a plume of soft sand. The inscription on his tombstone in Groombridge Church, where he is buried alongside his three children, bears his original name and no reference to his nom de plume. The crew braces for shock, the boat shudders and a giant plume of boat wash is the only mark left in the faint moonlight as the boat races forward into harm's way. Show More Sentences Thus, downwind males could be located higher in the vegetation to increase their chances of intercepting a pheromone plume and locating a receptive female. A plume of black and grey smoke was slowly rising into the air. A thin plume of ashen smoke drifts into the crystalline sky. Each Corinthian soldier wore a simple coat of chain mail beneath a set of light plate mail, complete with a helm that was adorned with a small plume of pure white fur. A suite of infrared, wide-field telescopes installed along the length of the aircraft's fuselage detects the missile plume at ranges up to several hundred km. For one month in 2013, a British street artist known by the nom de plume of Banksy hypnotized the city of New York. The iodine plume itself is not the issue, agreed Brenner, but that it falls on the grass and cows eat it. Pierre Loti was the nom de plume of Julian Viaud, a young French midshipman who, in 1872, came upon a beauty named Rarahu bathing in a sylvan pool behind Papeete. First, he incorporated his nom de plume in order to protect the copyright on his books and extend his royalties. Propelled through the air with an accompanying plume of sulphurous smoke, yet another lead slug tore through the wooden board which happened to be today's target. It's bilious red plume was shot through with small dashes of black, and a tiny white bead formed a snowy tear or decorative pearl at the corner of it's left eye. Borgman has escaped through a tunnel, leaving a plume of smoke in his wake. As ocean currents head eastward across the Pacific, the plume is expected eventually to hit the West Coast of the United States. Follow the path as the plume spreads and the ultimate destination becomes clear. A plume of black smoke rises to the sky as the masked assassins speed away. Nick de Plume is a nom de plume for 19-year old Harvard Student Nick Ciarelli, who's run the site for six years, and notched up an impressive record of scoops. It is her maiden name that he eventually adopted as his nom de plume. More than 180 firefighters fought a blaze that melted cars and lorries, saw half the town evacuated and sent up a plume of smoke that was visible 15 miles away. So when falcons were carried on the cadge you could quickly see the required falcon by the colour of the eye panels and the type of feathers in its plume. Every now and then they would fire a pair of missiles which would explode and send a plume of darker smoke above the white haze of gunsmoke already hanging above the camp. Show More Sentences In Bodmer's painting Pehriska Ruhpa, an eminent Hidatsa, is shown wearing a large headdress with a medial fan of turkey tail feathers and an upright red plume. The plume was designed to lie along the crown of the chapeau-bras. He was in the process of cutting up some kind of machine with a blow torch, several parts of it were on fire and a plume of oily smoke hovered over it. A huge radioactive plume was spreading outward from the exploded reactor core, threatening to contaminate everything in its path with potentially fatal isotopes. A very loud siren will give a shrill whoop-whoop if a deadly plume of gas gets loose, and we're issuing special protective equipment for each home, business, and school. The spatial and chronological evolution of the Canary Islands' volcanism is due to eastward progression of the slow-moving African plate over a mantle plume. The presence of a mantle plume beneath the region is widely documented. This means that the plume from the cooling tower is evaporated water. This time, the main concern was a significant ash plume carrying gritty pulverized rock and silica that could damage aircraft engines and the surfaces of cars and homes. Another theoretical advantage of RFA is that it denatures viral proteins without a plume and its by products are elementary molecules and low molecular weight inert gases. The crown is a yellow songkok with a broad band of gold studded with small diamonds and brilliants and having a white plume in front. But whenever the female lays a clutch of eggs, the male is well positioned to fertilize them by releasing a spermic plume. The writer adopted the initials after his nom de plume, Aeon, was once shortened accidentally through printer's devilry. They stuck not to say that the king cared not to plume his nobility and people to feather himself. Monitoring wells are installed downgradient of a contamination source to detect a contaminant plume. After the explosion, a plume of smoke could be seen in the sky for miles around. The magma opened a route to the surface which erupted for about ten hours, with the plume probably reaching a height of 35 kilometres. Highlights of the image include a volcanic plume over the equator near the Philippines and a large polar stratospheric cloud above Antarctica. The plume poppy Macleaya cordata is a bit of an oddity, as it looks nothing like any poppy you may have grown. Reprinted with the permission of plume, a member of the Penguin Group. Show More Sentences The clathrates that feed Enceladus's plumes could encage the numerous other gases that make up about 10 percent of the plume. The hot shoes were re-worked on the anvil with hammer and brush, and then applied to the hoof in a plume of steam to kill all of the bacteria. There is an ongoing discussion about whether the hotspot is caused by a deep mantle plume or originates at a much shallower depth. Perseids are one of the more regular astronomical occurrences as the Earth passes through the plume in between July and August every year. Our problem is surgical plume, caused by a diathermy or laser machine used during surgery, sometimes producing dense, foul-smelling smoke. Hot mantle materials rising up in a plume can spread out radially beneath the tectonic plate causing regions of uplift. Many geoscientists suspect that the plume feeding Hawaiian volcanoes comes from the deepest part of the mantle. In the theory of plume tectonics developed during the 1990s, a modified concept of mantle convection currents is used. The figure shows the general relationship between the Froude number and the vapor plume trajectory with wider variations at lower Froude numbers. The above model suggests that the NE Archaean portion of the Baltic shield was dominated by plume tectonics. Vorticity associated with external effects such as wind shear might be concentrated and create a vortex core along the axis of the plume. The rotation occurs due to interactions between the updraught of the plume and horizontal wind patterns. Harrison and Spearpoint have also observed this phenomenon in the study of adhered spill plume. However, light reflected from the plume aerosols was partially depolarized, a sign that some of the airborne particles were irregularly shaped. The team plans to discharge the water in a plume that reaches the ocean's mesopelagic zone, where it will settle down to its proper depth. The geochemical evidence for a mantle plume origin and the selective crustal contamination of basaltic magmas. Not so with the stiff-upper-lipped unelected nobody who goes under the medieval, meaningless nom de plume of Black Rod. Therefore, both a mantle plume and also the subductions of the oceanic plates may have mutually contributed to create the magmatic zone. When a subcontinental plume hits such a thin spot, the result would be voluminous shallow magmatism. The fallout plume spread high levels of radiation for over a hundred miles, contaminating a number of populated islands in nearby atoll formations. Show More Sentences The sulfide-rich water jets create chimneylike structures around each superheated plume, supporting a rich ecosystem of hyperthermophiles that survive on chemosynthesis. Multiple lines of evidence show water was present in both the high angle vapour plume and the ejecta curtain created by the LCROSS Centaur impact. One was wholly debranchiate, the other had but one gill plume remaining. The method involves shooting a laser at the sample's surface, which creates a plume of molecules and ions that can then be analyzed by the mass spectrometer. The latter may have originated as dispersed parts of ancient mantle plumes similar to a modern plume responsible for the formation of the intraplate Bowie Seamount. Annie Winifred Ellerman, daughter of the UK's wealthiest man Sir John Ellerman, took the name Bryher as her nom de plume in the early 20th century. The name could be a nom de plume but it could also be an accolade. It lies over a hot spot, or a stationary plume of heat deep within Earth. The river pushes a vast plume of fresh water into the ocean. We mention this observation, not with any view of pretending to account for so odd a behaviour, but lest some critic should hereafter plume himself on discovering it. The eruption caused floods of meltwater and sent huge amounts of ash into the atmosphere, and the plume disrupted air traffic across northern and western Europe. First, schlieren and shadowgraph photographs were taken of the injector flow to study the behavior of the jets, shape of the plume, and penetration of the liquid jet. Plume moths have wings consisting of five or more parts each. Although it's still uncommon, enrollment has increased slightly, said Travois Plume, counselor at the center. Examples from Classical Literature Colonel Bob came down from his high horse, threw aside his plume, took off his chapeau, and handed it to his papa. He won her away with his glitter and plume And citified ways, while the lover did fume. Once I saw Dan's cowlick shake like the plume of an angry warrior as his wife turned toward him inquiringly. And as they brought her up a plume of smoke jetted from the bows of the proa. He was a police dog with the dignity of a prince and the lightness of a plume. The nom de plume was their property and could not be appropriated by any other publisher. Every salesgirl must have a plume on her hat rather than a nourishing luncheon. The ecclesiastical93 monitor, from spur to plume a star of sanctimony, was called the chaplain. Greycroft shall be my field of conquest and the white plume that leads to victory will be an Orpington. One stretch of low-lying shore is parklike and grassy, flower-crowded, and dotted here and there with a plume of spruce or fir. We are ashamed to own we are jealous, and yet we plume ourselves in having been and being able to be so. Mr. Yates chose the last, and thenceforward it became Mr. Dodgson's ordinary nom de plume. They curl, upwards from the root, downwards to the point, and form a plume. He wore a red Turkish fez, with an immense rosette of brilliants, and a long, floating plume of bird-of-paradise feathers. But first do rise on your toes, look over the purple plume on the fat woman's hat, and catch one glimpse of Elman's expression! The plume of the other varieties is erectile, but that of the San Pedro denizen is soft and falls down the side. The chamfron is sometimes provided with hinged cheek-plates and usually has a holder for a plume. And the fluctuant oceans plume on plume Bears down to a rock-ribbed hidden doom, And the sky is ashen gray. The heavy ax, glancing along his helm, clove off its jaunty white plume, and crashed fair upon the chamfron of his mount. Each bears a snow-white shield carried on the slant, and above each warrior's head rises a grey heron's plume. Show More Sentences The horse was very richly caparisoned, and wore in his headstall a plume of varied feathers. Necklace, fetich, and the plume that adorned his sidelock, he put in the quiver. As it was, he was more scared than hurt, and snollygoster added another plume to his cap. Do you think the button at the top may have had a socket for a horse hair plume? His high black plume floats abroad over the throng, like a raven over the field of the slain. And there, where the derrick had stood, was a tall plume of white. Baibars wore an egret's plume, symbol of valor, on his green turban. No plume or nobloy fluttered from his plain tilting salade, and even his lance was devoid of the customary banderole. She had not a sail aloft nor a plume of smoke in her funnel. A STACKYARD fire in Redcar could be seen more than ten miles away when it sent a plume of black smoke in a pall over the town. Baby Shark, Kristin Van Dijk, got her nom de plume by learning from her father to be a top flight pool player. Because of his fear of reprisals he had to resort to a nom de plume and assumed whistleblower status. His hat bore a long curling ostrich plume of pure white and he doffed it graciously in answer to the shouts of the people. That is the nom de plume adopted by the Queen of Asturia when travelling. By the way, please keep my nom de plume strictly to yourself. And you, Hermogenes, on what do you plume yourself most highly? He wears a plume on his head, and does nothing but dance in the sunshine. In fighting jacket and plume Jeb Stuart came into the light. With this he flew at Alexandrus, caught him by the horsehair plume of his helmet, and began dragging him towards the Achaeans. Gunny especially pointed out one young Zulu Induna with a plume head dress, telling me that he was a very gallant man, and had headed a charge three times. Show More Sentences And I the Duc de Beaufort by his white plume of ostrich feathers. The days are gone when a girl would so much as look at such a fribble as Sir Plume. Such were the marauders of whose offences the gallant White Plume made the most bitter complaint. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of plume? Words that rhyme with plume What is the past tense of plume? What is the plural of plume? What is the adjective for plume? What is the noun for plume? Translations for plume Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words plumcot plumbs plumbism plumbing plumbic plumbers plumed Plumer plumeria plumerias plumes pluming 5-letter Words Starting With p pl plu plum