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Sentence Examples Kaos, however, stood unmoving as more demons erupted from the plumes of fire behind him. This time a massive hydrogen bomb lifts its manmade plumes until they tower over the natural clouds. The traditional Australian army slouch hat with emu plumes, worn instead of helmets, has also proved to be a huge hit with the locals. The early morning sun rose into the sky, its beauty and gracefulness covered by a misty haze and leftover plumes of gun smoke. The rolling green pastures were now dust, plumes of brown and yellow swirling over a land which was once so rich and fruitful. The video showed a white truck exploding and black plumes of smoke billowing into the air. Head plumes are highly modifiable and likely signal information regarding a male's intent, similar to a coverable badge. The seventeenth-century civil wars are a real treat to do with flamboyant plumes, baggy trousers and lots of colour. The plumery manufactures the entire range of the British Armies plumes in humanely gathered horse hair and feather. The Florida Cormorant is especially addicted to this practice, and dives and plumes itself several times in the day. Methane gas plumes are also attributed to at least one plane disappearing, because it exploded when it entered the plume. While fires are the major contributor to these carbon monoxide plumes, he suspects, at times, industrial sources may also be a factor. Another instrument keeps daily track of the carbon monoxide plumes from fires and the scope of pollution produced regionally and globally. And the pollution plumes from power stations in Adelaide have been used as a case study. Thus basal primates might have used ethanol plumes to locate ripening fruits as well as associated fauna. The intense flames sent plumes of smoke into the sky and initially prevented police and rescue workers from approaching the bus. Their breath rose in white plumes as they walked to the driveway and over to Katie's car. All they could see from where they were was a massive dust cloud and plumes of black smoke. She hung up, switched on the television, and saw plumes of white smoke etched against the blue Texas sky. Bird plumes, which were used to adorn women's hats and other items in the fashion industry, were worth more than gold. Show More Sentences Great Egrets were nearly wiped out in the United States in the late 1800s when their plumes were fashionable on women's hats. They signify social status by items of adornment such as feather plumes and large coiled, copper necklaces and armlets. I saw the honeyeaters so well that I could see the filamentous white plumes on their black throats. It's not just that pelts and plumes are exotic, strikingly patterned or richly textured. During the flight, plumes of smoke could be seen rising from freshly bombed areas. Callipepla californica are New World quail, birds that have chunky, rounded bodies and crests or head plumes. Entire populations of magnificent birds of paradise were murdered for the monetary value of their plumes. Its all ephemera and persiflage, as we sit mocking in the plumes as political gadflies who tell the truth. There were immense black plumes at each corner and a black velvet pall covered the coffin. Huge plumes of snow blowing from the summits of some mountains looked like the smoke from great incense offerings. Everything would be awash in pale yellow-green with cattails on the alders, and the maples trailing green seed plumes. Their sloping slate roofs peeked over Victorian chimneys almost smothered in the plumes of grey smoke which coiled ever upwards into the sky. Exploding gas tanks launched huge fireballs and black plumes of smoke high into the air. A bronze figure of Hercules supports an ormolu bowl surmounted by a triple row of plumes, from which rise the three candle branches. The flour cascaded down in ribbon plumes of white instead of descending straight from a barely elevated sifter. The Maori adorn themselves with the plumes just as the natives of New Guinea crown their headdresses with Bird-of paradise feathers. Chicago is filled with fountains, from small burblers in neighborhoods to soaring plumes of wind-driven water. Those ejections form plumes of searing plasma hundreds of thousands of light-years long. According to Mr Tobin, a Council overseer spotted the black plumes of polluting smoke from the burning pyre. The practice in question is the growing of goldenrod, a tallish native weed with feathery yellow plumes. Show More Sentences A huge blaze at an industrial park in Leeds last night sent plumes of black smoke spiralling nearly 2,000 ft into the air. Below them, the Imperial Army marched along the road, plumes of smoke rising from the cratered remains of the Star encampments. Then white umbels of pignuts contrast with the drooping honey-scented cream plumes of meadowsweet. Up to eighteen inches long, these gaudy fish have large plumes and fleshy flaps on their head that mimic colourful reef growth. He was in Prince Albert's 11 th Hussars, and cut quite a dash on horseback in his crimson trousers, braided tunic, tassels and plumes. Fires had broken out during the night and there were several plumes of dark smoke still smoldering throughout the city. Enormous plumes of choking black smoke fill the sky where the oil has been set alight. The river draining the proglacial lake carries a much lower amount of sediment than the iceberg and glacial meltwater plumes. Crests and plumes on the head and neck are present during breeding. Suddenly amid wails of screaming engines, plumes of smoke and burning rubber, riders and bikes raced down the straight and through the first corner. Juveniles have a dark crown with no plumes or ruff, and a mottled neck. Crested auklets have a conspicuous black forehead-crest, white auricular plumes, an orange bill with accessory plates, and a citruslike plumage odor. The north-flowing Gulf Stream collides with a tendril of the southbound Labrador Current there, creating knots and plumes of flow that change daily, even hourly. A 1990 report, for example, said Archbold's bowerbirds decorate with plumes from a bird of paradise species that molts only two of the big feathers a year. We could see jerky motion, and ostrich plumes bobbling atop the helmets. The Knights and Ladies of the Garter were dressed in dark blue velvet robes, red velvet hoods, and black velvet bonnets topped with swaying ostrich plumes. It's a food chain that ranges from giant fields and plumes of the basic building block bacteria to curious octopuses and swarms of shrimp and crabs and red-tipped worms. The convective plumes rising out of the Rockies will swallow anything we want to fly against them. Passing through plumes of evil-smelling sulphurous smoke and steam, they finally encountered daylight, and emerged from the gaping maw of a volcanic cone. With a little planning you can enjoy a view from your window of snow on the plumes of pampas grass or on a garden statue nestled into a green hedge. Show More Sentences Ornamental bird plumes, by weight, were more valuable than gold. In the world of high fashion, ladies donned hats adorned with heron and egret plumes, and many even wore elaborate millinery creations containing entire bird bodies. Unlike static ornaments, head plumes are highly modifiable and likely signal immediate information regarding a male's intent, similar to a coverable badge. The highly modified courtship plumes found in many species of birds of paradise are only one extreme of the diversity of courtship plumes found in birds. Great plumes of fur and feather that were black as the deepest caverns framed his face and trailed down his back, waving wildly in the lightest breeze. The whole scene was densely shrouded in thick plumes of sulphur. The scientists discovered that crabs of diverse sizes feed on vast numbers of zooplankton that are killed by toxic sulphurous plumes emitted from underwater vents. The accident sent large plumes of chlorine gas into the air. But I don't feel good either at the sight of inveterate smokers hanging around in back alleys looking like lost souls drifting amid poignant plumes of smoke. They have long, conspicuous, forward curving crests on their heads that droop over their eyes and thin, white plumes extending backward from the back of each eye. It is also possible that upper mantle mafic plumes acted as a heat source for, and made some contribution to, the melting of more felsic rocks in the lower crust. But while the ancient imagination doubtless conjured up giants in plumes of gas from fumaroles, the earthquakes that Pliny described so casually were more than just portents. The plumes billowed from the Sangeang Api volcano off the Indonesian island of Sumbawa. The impact destroyed the smaller body, vaporizing huge amounts of rock and flinging massive plumes of hot lava into space. In 1909 alone over 300,000 albatrosses were killed on Midway Island and Laysan Island for their plumes. Chimneys spewed plumes of harmful chemicals into the atmosphere, the air was thick with exhaust fumes and pea-souper fogs enveloped streets. The early volcanic activity of major hotspots, postulated to result from deep mantle plumes, is frequently accompanied by flood basalts. These include exposure to diathermy plumes, outdated guidelines for handling cytotoxic substances and standards for theatre crate weights. I can see his tongue, a pointed, triangular affair, working the plumes into the svelte vanes that form each contour feather. Macleaya Kelways Coral can reach 8ft, its handsome grey green foliage topped with pink plumes in July and August. Show More Sentences He studies tubeworms and other animals that thrive around deep ocean vents releasing sulfide-choked plumes of water too hot to hold oxygen. This weekend, Kris Ohlenkamp will rise at dawn, head for the hills, then keep an eagle-eyed watch for plumes. It asserts that super plumes rise from the deeper mantle and are the drivers or substitutes of the major convection cells. The clathrates that feed Enceladus's plumes could encage the numerous other gases that make up about 10 percent of the plume. Some volcanoes occur in the interiors of plates, and these have been variously attributed to internal plate deformation and to mantle plumes. According to their theory, the breakup of continents is directly linked with mantle plumes. The source of many or all LIPs are variously attributed to mantle plumes, to processes associated with plate tectonics or to meteorite impacts. A Astilbes love very damp soils and will reward you with feathery plumes of flowers every year in shades of pink, white, red and purple. Volcanism away from plate boundaries has also been explained as mantle plumes. The source of many or all LIPs is variously attributed to mantle plumes or to processes associated with plate tectonics. In addition, mantle plumes may heat the lithosphere and cause prodigious igneous activity. With our snotsicles and waxy cheeks, our breaths' plumes and hulking silhouettes, we may look like members of Scott's last expedition. Women now resembled well-rounded cabbages from which protruded a tiny head crushed beneath a Charlotte hat covered with plumes and gew-gaws. He has titles enough to greatness, without borrowing plumes from the gratuitous bedeckings of prurient writers. If the word is line, which also means rope, then the word refers to a chorus line and also to the plumes of fumes of a burning rope. Huskisson's coffin was placed on a trestle table in the Town Hall, draped with black velvet and covered with feathered plumes. In the raft with him went four principal subject chiefs, decked in plumes, crowns, bracelets, pendants and ear rings all of gold. A radio galaxy is an active galaxy that is very luminous in the radio portion of the spectrum, and is emitting immense plumes or lobes of gas. The plumes could impact zooplankton and light penetration, in turn affecting the food web of the area. Depending on the size of the particles and water currents the plumes could spread over vast areas. Show More Sentences When a bird arrives at the nest, a greeting ceremony occurs in which each partner raises and lowers its wings and plumes. Among the impacts of deep sea mining, sediment plumes could have the greatest impact. The Albert's lyrebird of Australia is one of the most impressive of all birds, with long curved plumes like the ancient Greek lyre and a powerful song to match. Hart is a geologist and isotope geochemist whose recent research has focused on the origin of hot spots and mantle plumes and on the dynamics and evolution of the deep Earth. Thus peacocks display their plumes, while the peahen chooses. Astilbes produce their fluffy flower plumes in early Summer and are best suited to damp ground and some shade, such as the edge of a pond or bog garden. The mantle's flow is driven by the descent of cold tectonic plates during subduction and the complementary ascent of plumes of hot material from lower levels. Astilbe WITH all the rain we've been having lately, my astilbes are happier than ever, their delicate feathery plumes brightening up a semi-shaded corner. With small changes in ocean temperature, gas hydrate can release its methane into the sediments, and the gas may escape at the seafloor to form plumes in the water column. 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. The tourism in the region as affected as the cog railway that runs up the 4,302-metre high Pikes Peak had to shut because of the rising smoke plumes in the air. The lagoon was large and deep, so that a ship with high sides could sail on it, all loaded with an infinity of men and women dressed in fine plumes, golden plaques and crowns. Europe's most active volcano, Mount Etna, has erupted forcing the closure of nearby Catania airport due to the plumes of ash billowing into the sky. Here is the time to cruise with plumes also ending with Billiemi stone. Despite their name, these plumes were actually obtained from egrets. Examples from Classical Literature The broad plumes of the corozo palm curved gracefully over, their points trailing downwards, and without motion. She was in high feather, not adequately to be expressed by the plumes, and at once she told him why. The Household Cavalry were given helmets with weeping plumes fixed to the apexes. He stretches out his mailed arms to astyanax, but the child is frightened by his nodding plumes. Any doubt arising as to which species a specimen may belong can easily be settled by an examination of the axillar plumes. I suspect that the sweetheart of one of our Filipino cabin-boys is now wearing a hat fairly smothered in bird-of-paradise plumes. At Palau the plumes are used in headdresses worn by the natives, the birds being taken with the blowgun. So he picked up some castoff feathers of the Peacocks and stuck them among his own black plumes. Once down, however, he shook his fluttered plumes, and crowed like any chanticleer. The two California species have two round, black plumes falling gracefully over the back of the neck, but erectile when excited. The spiraea was just putting out its long, feathery plumes of white, and the lilacs nodded white and purple in the breeze. Represented as ithyphallic, with two tall plumes on his head, the right arm upraised and bearing a scourge. To visit Makassar without buying bird-of-paradise plumes, she said, would be like visiting Japan without buying a kimono. They have learnt to kill one another in glittering cuirasses, in helmets topped with plumes, or maned with scarlet. Thus having said, the glorious chief resumes His towery helmet black with shading plumes. Each man wore upon his head a down head-net, a pair of trembler plumes, and a yellowhammer-feather forehead-band. Upon the head was a feather tuft, a yellowhammer-feather forehead-band, two trembler plumes and some down. Upon the head each man wore a down head-net, a feather tuft, and a pair of trembler plumes. He acknowledged that he was parading under borrowed plumes, as he was a McNamara in reality. The plumes decorating the posterior extremity are of course extraneous and represent the tail of the quetzal or trogon. Show More Sentences For fifty years the demand for plumes for millinery purposes has been growing. Of stature greater than his own the golden-rod stood, crested with yellow plumes, unswayed by the still air. Their feathery plumes are admirably adapted for catching and utilising any stray golden grain which happens to pass that way. The fiercest was driven by a numidian who was crowned with a diadem of plumes. Near by, silvery plumes of pampas grass gently swayed on their reed-like stems. The tattered cloak of the beggar will bear him up like the rayed plumes of the angels. The tall plumes of the canes, new-born, by the side of every stream and rivulet. They were painted a cream white, and drawn by a pair of white horses, coiffed with white plumes. If men were judged by their commonness, I would be a chief with plumes in my hat. The horses were decked with red, white and blue plumes and large silk pennants. Beside the river-beds are patches of elephant grass, eight to ten feet high, with feathered plumes six feet higher still. Seest thou how the twin plumes straighten on his crest, and his father's own emblazonment already marks him for upper air? He has on a long green robe, and on his turban are long orange plumes. Only a very faint bending of the head-dress and plumes welcomed Rawdon and his wife, as those prodigals returned to their family. Three scarlet plumes sprouted from his helm, the mark of a former champion, and he rode a heavy-set Cleveland with feathered hocks. You may believe the plumes drooped and the war paint trickled. Her little neck and arms were bare, and her hair, artificially crimped, stood out like fluffy black plumes over her head. The populace was an ever flocking and drifting swarm of rags, and splendors, of nodding plumes and shining armor. Although ice and dust particles have subsequently been found in the Enceladus plumes, only water vapor gases have been measured at Europa so far. Volcanic plumes might trigger deep chills on what's proposed to be the first volcanically active body outside the solar system. Show More Sentences He was quite huffy, but noticing my wondering stare he smoothed his ruffled plumes. In 2005, plumes of water vapor and dust were detected by NASA's Cassini orbiter spewing off the surface of the Saturnian moon Enceladus. Two officers preceded him, bearing plumes of gorgeously colored feathers. Like the snow goose it is pure white with black primary plumes. Many other people like to wear ostrich plumes as well as Matty. Their Scotch bonnets, ornamented with plumes of jet black feathers, Mr Grinder carried on his instrument. Along the cattle-paths the plumes of goldenrod were already fading into sun-warmed velvet, grey with gold threads in it. In the forefront gleamed, like the white plumes of Navarre, the light flannel suit of Arthur Mifflin, the woodenest juvenile in captivity. A tame egret ruffled her white plumes at the Princess's shoulder. Another well-known racecourse tipster was Gully Gully who, unlike Prince Monolulu, didn't wear a headband of dyed ostrich plumes but sported a teacher's mortar board. Find more words! 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