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Example sentences for "fume"

Lexicographically close words:
fumaroles; fumble; fumbled; fumbles; fumbling; fumed; fumes; fumigate; fumigated; fumigating
  1. I don't see her," murmured Jolyon through the fume of his cigarette.

  2. And the fume of the burning cedar logs, that he loved so well, seemed to grip Soames by the throat till he could bear it no longer.

  3. But Jo had French tastes, and it had come out shadowy like that, with an effect as of the fume of cigarettes the chap was always smoking, broken here and there by a little blaze of blue or crimson colour.

  4. When you see a thin blue fume rising from it, it is hot enough.

  5. Also we must let the fat get hot again, watching for the fume between each relay, because the cold batter and the cold apple will make our fat a little cool.

  6. If you do not look closely it may escape your notice, for it is only a thin fume you want, not a thick smoke.

  7. A shape there rose with iron wain and steeds 'Mid sallow fume of sulphur and pale fires; Its countenance meager, and its eyes e'en such As the wild, ghastly sulphur.

  8. All men and gods abolished with the world, Which into an abyss of fume and flame Sinks like a meteor of the Summer night, That slides into the gold of burning eve And with eve's gold is burning, blent and lost.

  9. And a thin smoke began to fume up from below.

  10. And about noon, half hidden in the fume and steam of their own breath, they saw a great herd or muster of Ephelantoes feeding.

  11. The same doth a fume of the feathers of peacocks.

  12. Also it is said that a fume made of the root of herb sagapen with the juice of hemlock and henbane, and the herb tapsus barbatus, red sanders and black poppy makes spirits and strange shapes appear.

  13. Preston, who was in a fume of impatience.

  14. Preston was in a fume of vexation, partly roused by my looks, partly by hearing that I was not yet free.

  15. He raised the dipper to his lips, and the next instant it rang upon the floor, and over the whole front of him splashed the raw liquor, and in his nostrils was the fume and reek of it.

  16. The girl sprang to her feet as the hot blood surged to her face and paced frantically back and forth in a fume of primordial hate.

  17. Right and left he struck in a reckless fume of ferocity, which spoke of unreasoning fights in worlds of savage firstlings.

  18. And the north was Gethsemane, without leaf or bloom, A garden sealed; And the south was Aceldama, for a sanguine fume Hid all the field.

  19. He will hear not again the strong crying of earth in his ears as before, And the fume of his multitudes dying shall flatter his nostrils no more.

  20. Lest for those past fires the fires of my repentance Hell's fume yet smother, Now my blood would buy remission of my sentence; (Cho.

  21. As they bent to their work and over the creak of the leather in the rowlocks the rumble and fume of the seven mile beach came mixed with the yelping and mewing of the gulls.

  22. Then as they stood, suddenly and like a thing shot dead, the wind ceased, and in the silence the roar of the beaches far and near arose like a fume of sound.

  23. The air of the place was stifling with the fume of cigarettes, and the girl nearly choked as she closed the door and stood facing the old lady in the bunk.

  24. He was searching for her, the fume of him filled the place, he was almost in touch with her, yet still she sat helpless as a little child, paralysed in the blackness, as a bird before a crawling cat.

  25. You must have read his clever bits in the "Bulletin"--those little running paragraphs that snap and fume like a pack of Chinese crackers?

  26. After a fashion he did kiss her--though the fume was clearing from his brain as haze lifts on the channel, though he understood how abhorrent was this caress unknown to Orientals--beginning to feel pretty much ashamed of himself.

  27. He was in a mood to fume and curse at anyone--particularly at Shawn, and that not for the large and just reasons, but simply for a certain standing order that forbade any of the hands to sleep on deck.

  28. Behold, my heart is purer than the plume Upon the stainless pinions of the swan, And thou wilt smirch and stain it with the fume Of all thy hateful lusts Idalian.

  29. The train rolled on, with all its fume and fuss, and roar of steam, and stench of oil and burning coal.

  30. A Heidenberg stove, filled to the brim with intensely burning anthracite, was sending a bright gleam through the isinglass of its iron door, and causing the vase of water on its top to fume and bubble with excitement.

  31. The heat will fume away most of the scent.

  32. How vicious hearts fume frenzy to the brain!

  33. Fourthly, the Fume of Tobacco should be thrown up, as speedily and plentifully as possible, into the Intestines by the Fundament.

  34. From this glass I throw a drop Of Crystal water on the top Of every grass, on flowers a pair: Send a fume and keep the air Pure and wholsom, sweet and blest, Till this Virgins wound be drest.

  35. Never did a lover so fume against the inexorable deliberation of time and the obstinate length of distance.

  36. Seti, in a fume of boyish indignation at Rameses, attended her like a shadow.

  37. I used to fume about it a little, but Mr. Falkirk only said "My dear," and a few other things of a cooing nature.

  38. Lead smelters labour under this difficulty of condensing the fume which escapes along with the smoke from red-lead smelting furnaces; and it was considered that an electrical process of condensation might be made serviceable for the purpose.

  39. At Bagillt, the method used for collecting or condensing the lead fume is a large flue two miles long; much is retained in this flue, but still a visible cloud of white-lead fume continually escapes from the top of the chimney.

  40. And since the Subiect is but of Smoke, I thinke the fume of an idle braine, may serue for a sufficient battery against so fumous and feeble an enemy.

  41. A custome lothsome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomelesse.

  42. He strapped a folded blanket on his back, and then let him race, and rear, and roll, and fume as much as he liked.

  43. He wound fat Asia up in her own clothes line against the post, and left here there to fume and scold for half an hour one busy Monday morning.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fume" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ado; aerate; agitation; aroma; ash; ashes; bleach; blow; bluster; boil; boiling; brand; brawl; breath; bristle; broil; burn; bustle; cacophony; calx; carbon; carbonate; chafe; chaos; charcoal; churn; cinder; clinker; cloud; coal; coke; commotion; corn; cure; damp; dim; discolor; discomposure; disorder; disquiet; distill; disturbance; drain; dross; dry; dull; ebullition; effervescence; effluvium; emanation; embalm; embroilment; emit; essence; evacuate; evaporate; excitement; exhalation; exhale; exhaust; expire; fade; fanaticism; ferment; fermentation; fever; fidgets; firedamp; flap; flare; flavor; fluid; flurry; fluster; foam; foment; fomentation; fragrance; freeze; frenzy; fret; fume; fumigate; furor; fury; fuss; hubbub; huff; hurry; inquietude; irradiate; jerk; kipper; lava; maelstrom; malaise; malaria; marinate; miasma; moil; nervousness; pale; pandemonium; passion; perfume; peroxide; perturbation; pet; pickle; pique; preserve; puff; racket; rage; rant; rave; reek; refrigerate; restlessness; rout; row; ruckus; ruffle; rumpus; salt; savor; scent; scoria; season; seethe; seething; simmer; sizzle; slag; smell; smoke; smolder; smudge; smut; soot; spoor; spray; steam; stench; stew; stir; storm; stuff; sublimate; sublime; sweat; swirl; swirling; tarnish; tiff; trace; trail; trepidation; tumult; turbidity; turbulence; turmoil; twitter; unrest; uproar; upset; vapor; vaporize; volatilize; vortex; whiff; whirl; whiten