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• Monitoring wells are installed downgradient of a contamination source to detect a contaminant plume.From the entry downgradient
• Faeries ripped plumes from helmets; soldiers found their pistols dangled just out of reach.2014, Emma Trevayne, “Lorcan, Banished”, in Flights and Chimes and Mysterious Times, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster Books for Young…. From the entry mayhem
• Should Angel-Feathers plume my Cap, I should Be swash? but oh! my Heart grows Cold.2014, Edward Taylor, The Poems of Edward Taylor, page 60. From the entry swash
• As they rose above the forest a thin plume of smoke also rose from the castle.2002, Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad, page 97. From the entry broomstick
• When a subcontinental plume hits such a thin spot, the result would be voluminous shallow magmatism.1995, Brian F. Windley, The Evolving Continents, Wiley, published 1995, →ISBN, page 51. From the entry subcontinental
• These structures spread across the earth's surface, becoming ten times larger than average plumes.1990, Roger Smith, Magill's Survey of Science: Earth Science Series Supplement, Volume 6, Salem Press, page 3160. From the entry superplume
• "If a diapir is outside an established plume it rises at a much slower rate," Loper says.29 April 1989, Nigel Henbest, “Geologists hit back at impact theory of extinctions”, in New Scientist. From the entry diapir
• She lit a cigarette and puffed a plume with a head-jerk.1987, Jonathan Gash [pseudonym; John Grant], Moonspender: A Lovejoy Novel of Suspense, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, page 154. From the entry scribess
• There was a duke in a black hat with a red plume.1936 June 5, Margaret Bell Houston, “Gypsy Weather”, in The Lincoln Star, volume 34, page 2. From the entry threemasted
• One was wholly debranchiate, the other had but one gill plume remaining.1934, Natural History Report: Zoology VII, British Museum, page 144. From the entry debranchiate
• George pointed out a flock of aigrets, the beautiful wild fowl with the priceless plumes.1912, Zane Grey, chapter 3, in Ken Ward in the Jungle, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 31. From the entry aigrette
• When King's authorship of Thinner was concealed behind the nom de plume Richard Bachman, the novel sold relatively well.2018, Robert McParland, Bestseller: A Century of America's Favorite Books, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 154. From the entry nom de plume
• Away down the line he could see a locomotive approaching, a plume of smoke blowing back from its cabbage-head smokestack.2017, Emmett Stone, Splintered Canyon. From the entry cabbage-head
• When a turkey vulture detects the scent of rot, it circles down, tracing the plume of chemicals to its source.2016, Nathanael Johnson, Unseen City, →ISBN, page 115. From the entry rot
• The surface elevations surrounding a hot spot have been explained by the presence of a plume head below the lithosphere.2016, Mainak Choudhuri, Michal Nemčok, Mantle Plumes and Their Effects, page vii. From the entry plume head
• With our snotsicles and waxy cheeks, our breaths' plumes and hulking silhouettes, we may look like members of Scott's last expedition.2010, Michael Engelhard, “Biking Cool”, in Michael Engelhard, editor, Cold Flashes: Literary Snapshots of Alaska, University of Alaska…. From the entry snotsicle
• The writer adopted the initials after his nom de plume, Aeon, was once shortened accidentally through printer's devilry.2002, Tim Pat Coogan, Michael Collins: The Man Who Made Ireland, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 445. From the entry printer's devilry
• SERVANT (Imitating the style of his master) The awful armgaunt knight who wields the Gorgon, shaking three shadowy plumes.1979, William Joseph Myles Starkie, The Acharnians of Aristophanes, page 195. From the entry armgaunt
• They wore very high Polish caps with square crowns, with a brass plate in front and topped with a plume.1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 191. From the entry aiguillette
• Women now resembled well-rounded cabbages from which protruded a tiny head crushed beneath a Charlotte hat covered with plumes and gew-gaws.1968, Gisèle d'Assailly, Ages of Elegance. From the entry charlotte
• But those who can remember attest to the fact that they came in with billowing plumes of smoke in their wake.[1958 November 18 (date delivered), Harry A. Williams, “Accomplishments in Air Pollution Control by the Automobile Industry”, in…. From the entry smoke wagon
• On the counter is a hounskull with aventail (a visored bascinet with mail tippet) with a small plume on the apex.1933, Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity. From the entry hounskull
• Horse looking round at it with his plume skeowways.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 6: Hades]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 97. From the entry skeow-ways
• A factory fire broke out in Taichung City’s Wuqi District on Saturday evening (Jan. 6), with plumes of smoke frightening nearby residents.2024 January 7, Sean Scanlan, “Late night factory fire in central Taiwan”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2024. From the entry Wuqi
• Ranjit Singh is seen in this image wearing a highly decorated turban with three kalgis or plumes and several different jewels and ornaments.2019, Amit Amin, Naroop Jhooti, Turbans and Tales: Portraits of Contemporary Sikh Identity, page 12. From the entry kalgi
• Some computer models allow periods of convection dominated by plumes, and others dominated by overturning planiform cells similar to the present Earth.2014, Timothy M. Kusky, Encyclopedia of Earth Science, page 94. From the entry planiform
• But whenever the female lays a clutch of eggs, the male is well positioned to fertilize them by releasing a spermic plume.2008 June 10, Natalie Angier, “Tallying the Toll on an Elder of the Sea”, in New York Times. From the entry spermic
• Therefore, both a mantle plume and also the subductions of the oceanic plates may have mutually contributed to create the magmatic zone.2000, Ki-Hong Chang, Sun-Ok Park, Soobum Chang, “Upper Mesozoic unconformity-bounded units of Korean Peninsula with Koguryo Magmatic…. From the entry subduction
• A plume, consisting of many individual jets, expels subsurface material originating from the ocean from four parallel fractures, the so-called tiger stripes, located in the south polar terrain.2023 April, N. Khawaja, T. R. O’Sullivan, F. Klenner, L.H. Sanchez, J. Hillier, “Discriminating Aromatic Parent Compounds and Their…. From the entry tiger stripes
• His aim grew more erratic as the monster approached, with some bullets flying wild into the wood pile or kicking up plumes of dirt far behind his target.2022 October 24, Kothardarastrix [pseudonym], “A Nightmare on 17th Street”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2024. From the entry yippee ki-yay
• Hotspots indicated by basaltic volcanism mark the position of the plume head below the Earth's surface, where magma has been generated by the partial melting of rising mantle material.2012, Tianfeng Weng, The Tectonics of China: Data, Maps and Evolution, page 371. From the entry plume head
• Two sorts of uplift pattern and igneous activity should result from plume activity depending on whether the lithosphere migrates over a plume head or plume tail.2005, Philip A. Allen, John A. Allen, Basin Analysis: Principles and Applications, page 108. From the entry plume tail
• The comparatively short initial eruptive phase is followed by tens of millions of years of less voluminous activity, as the plume tail slowly rises to the surface.2002, Edward J. Tarbuck, Frederick K. Lutgens, Earth: Introduction to Physical Geology, 7th edition, page 127. From the entry plume tail

Meaning of plume

1. noun A feather of a bird, especially a large or showy one used as a decoration.
2. noun A cluster of feathers worn as an ornament, especially on a helmet; a hackle.
3. noun A token of honour or prowess; that on which one prides oneself; a prize or reward.

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How do you use plume in a sentence?

Plume is used as a noun and verb. For example: “After the explosion, a plume of smoke could be seen in the sky for miles around.”

What is a short sentence with plume?

“He plumes himself on his skill.”

What does plume mean?

Plume means a feather of a bird, especially a large or showy one used as a decoration.