Examples of fume in a Sentence

Verb She's still fuming about not being invited to the party. We sat there waiting for him, fuming with anger at the delay. “They made these changes without even asking our opinion,” one employee fumed. The volcano was fuming thick black smoke.

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Although scallop fume inhalation was proving nonreactive, surely sharing scallop protein particles via mouth-to-mouth contact would not be. — Bonnie Garmus, Bon Appétit, 19 Apr. 2022 The legislation would create new mandates for crew training and for reporting and investigating fume events. — Kiera Feldmanstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2022 Its surface was sending out a faint autumnal fume, like faraway burning leaves. — Cynthia Ozick, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022 One of those designs includes the Endeavour Centre Seconds Concept X seconde/seconde/, which is similar in design to the new perpetual calendar models featuring a brightly colored fume dial with a cartoonish rubber eraser at its center. — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 15 Feb. 2022 Many in the vice president's circle fume that she's not being adequately prepared or positioned, and instead is being sidelined. — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 2 Dec. 2021 Many in the vice president's circle fume that she's not being adequately prepared or positioned, and instead is being sidelined. — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 2 Dec. 2021 Big rigs hogged streets and highways, waddling to and from the nearby fume-spewing port. — Steve Lopez Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2021 Many in the vice president's circle fume that she's not being adequately prepared or positioned, and instead is being sidelined. — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 2 Dec. 2021 Recent Examples on the Web: Verb But from that point forward, Straw Man Army — Owen Deutsch and Sean Fentress — refuses to fume, panic, scowl or proselytize. — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2022 All through the Beijing Games, the unchecked swagger of Canada’s women’s hockey team had been conspicuous for all to see — and to admire, fume over and fear. — New York Times, 16 Feb. 2022 The back-door alley entrance of the SEC headquarters is where people go to smoke, and sometimes also maybe to fume. — Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 10 Feb. 2022 Verstappen was left to fume while Hamilton built up a comfortable cushion, only for the safety car to bring the pack back together for the closing stages. — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2021 Both senators have yet to publicly do so, even as liberal Democrats continue to publicly fume over the reticence. — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2021 So while Team Logan goes in search of a country where the kingpin can fume and avoid extradition, and Team Kendall swings wildly between fist-bumping triumph and holy-moly terror, both sides are living in equal fear of the near future. — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2021 That means that musical-theater aficionados — for whom judging is a contact sport — will have plenty of opportunities to fume, rave, or shrug at the cinematic treatment of some favorite shows. — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2021 Others in the crowd began to fume as more reports of Taliban violence pinged on their phones. — Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2021 See More

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History and Etymology for fume

Noun

Middle English, "smoke, exhalation," borrowed from Anglo-French fum, going back to Latin fūmus "smoke, fumes," going back to Indo-European *d^huh₂-mó- "smoke, vapor" (whence also Old Church Slavic dymŭ "smoke," Lithuanian dū́mai, Sanskrit dhūmáḥ, and probably Greek thȳmós "spirit, mind, courage"), noun derivative from a verbal base *d^hu̯eh₂- or *d^heu̯h₂- "produce smoke by burning," whence Greek thýō, thýein "to sacrifice," Latin suffiō, suffīre "to subject to smoke, fumigate," Old Church Slavic dujǫ, duti "to blow" and perhaps Tocharian B twās- "kindle, ignite"

Note: Also allied are Hittite tuhhae-, perhaps "to smoke out, drive out by smoke," from an unattested noun derivative (earlier glossed as "gasp, cough"; see A. Kloeckhorst, Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon, Brill, 2008); and Old High German toum "vapor, smoke," Middle Dutch doom "vapor, steam," going back to Germanic *dauma-, presumably from an o-grade derivative *d^hou̯h₂-mo-. Greek thȳmós is an exact phonetic correspondent to the other words, though the sense divergence suggests influence from some phonetically similar base of different meaning.

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