FUME in a Sentence

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45 example sentences for FUME, such as:

1. The air was thick with cigar fumes.
2. The ether fumes were sweet, choking.
3. The ground was hidden by a white fume.
4. He began to fume with rage and exasperation.
5. She almost choked to death in the thick fumes.

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 Meanings and Examples of FUME
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fume
 n.  a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas; emit a cloud of fine particles
Classic Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1  Other lumbermen could only fume inwardly and state heatedly, in the bosoms of their families, that they wished to God Mrs. Kennedy was a man for just about five minutes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
2  He began to fume with rage and exasperation.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
3  The air was oppressive; it seemed as if there was some sulphurous fume, which at times made me dizzy.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
4  "It is an insult to you, Mrs. Meade," he fumed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
5  Dr. Meade fumed into silence and stroked her cheek and then exploded again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
6  They chased those that straggled and fumed at a few men who seemed to show by their attitudes that they had decided to remain at that spot.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
7  He had fumed inwardly during the feast, but when the flurry was over and he strolled home after seeing Scott off, a milder mood came over him.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
8  He writhed, fumed, shifted his seat, and the beating of his heart was almost audible.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 8 A New Force Disturbs the Current
9  There was a close stuffy smell in the room, compounded of the smoking fire, tobacco fumes, leather, damp woolen uniforms and unwashed bodies.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
10  It was as though a cold air had dispersed the fumes of his libations, and the situation loomed before him black and naked as the ruins of a fire.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
11  The ether fumes were sweet, choking.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
12  Why, Dave, the darn fool, sent me ether, instead of chloroform like I told him, and you know ether fumes are mighty inflammable, especially with that lamp right by the table.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
13  The claret was warm and the champagne was cold, and under their beneficent influence the threatened unpleasantness melted and vanished with the fumes of the wine.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXIII
14  The champagne was cold, and its subtle fumes played fantastic tricks with Edna's memory that night.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXIII
15  She hated to shut in the smoke and the fumes of the wine.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXI
Example Sentence:
1  But, the fume gas control techniques of most of them are highly advanced, where dioxins emission is usually controlled within standard.
2  The ground was hidden by a white fume.
3  When Mr Meshal sided with his Qatari financiers, who backed Syria's Islamist rebels after the uprising in 2011, Mr Assad and his men fumed at the treachery.
4  The air was thick with cigar fumes.
5  She almost choked to death in the thick fumes.
6  When toxic fumes began to drift toward our homes, we were told to evacuate.
7  If you smell gas fumes or burning, take the car to your mechanic.
8  The couple were suffocated by fumes from a faulty gas fire.
9  Clouds of toxic fumes escaped from the chemical plant.
10  These fires produce really obnoxious fumes and smoke.
11  The report said that the victims had suffocated in the fumes.
12  I saw her a week after they'd had the argument and she was still fuming.