How to Use eruption in a Sentence

eruption

noun

• For those just seeking a glimpse of the eruption, the tensions can be hard to grasp.
  — Simon Romero, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2022
• Supporters of the tourism industry view the eruption through a different lens.
  — Simon Romero, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2022
• His sister's body was never found and is believed to have been swept out to sea after a massive storm hit the island not long after the eruption.
  — Johnny Dodd, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2022
• Mauna Loa's latest eruption came as its sister volcano -- Kilauea -- has also been erupting since last year.
  — Aya Elamroussi and Taylor Romine, CNN, 13 Dec. 2022
• Authorities spent much of the day urging people to stay away from beaches and harbors due to the potential of a tsunami forming in the aftermath of the eruption.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2022
• The researchers examined about 3,000 lunar glass beads, which can come from volcanic eruptions or the impact of meteorites.
  — Peter Guo, NBC News, 6 Sep. 2024
• Similar events happened during Kīlauea’s briefer 2020 eruption.
  — Robin George Andrews, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Dec. 2022
• As the most powerful eruption in the past 30 years, the event’s shockwave circled the globe twice, and generated a devastating tsunami that killed five people.
  — Popular Mechanics, 22 Dec. 2022
• Back in 1980, only a handful of weather satellites were able to capture the eruption of Mount St. Helens.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 30 Dec. 2022
• Yet while the Rockets prevented a Doncic eruption from beyond the arc, his scoring totals crept up across the night thanks to a season-high 22 free-throw attempts.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 3 Jan. 2023
• The latest eruption is the fifth on the peninsula since 2021.
  — Catherine Duncan, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Jan. 2024
• An eruption of that scale would dwarf blasts like 1991's Pinatubo.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 8 Oct. 2023
• The couple was killed in a volcanic eruption in Japan in 1991.
  — Daron James, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2023
• With more minutes, the eruption could be coming in Game 6.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 10 May 2023
• The ring is known for volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and tsunamis.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Sep. 2023
• One of the biggest eruptions of thick smoke from the fires this year is beginning to drift south.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
• Feelings about this spring’s eruption of brand flicks have been mixed.
  — Zachary Siegel, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• About 45 miles from the volcano, the eruption cut off a seafloor fiber-optic cable.
  — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023
• The primal force of the fire draws pilgrims to the lips of the craters, and has drawn Weston around the world in chase of that initial eruption.
  — Nina MacLaughlin, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
• The eruption sent lava fountains at the summit as high as 200 feet.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 8 June 2023
• The volcanic eruption is Iceland’s fifth in three years, and second in less than a month.
  — TIME, 15 Jan. 2024
• This is the third eruption in the area, broadly known as Fagradalsfjall volcano, in the past two years.
  — Naomi Schanen, Washington Post, 11 July 2023
• Boom This five-minute short is about birds who try to protect their eggs from a volcanic eruption.
  — Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Dec. 2023
• The cut also alerted scientists to the fact that the eruption had disrupted the seafloor, which isn’t easy to spot.
  — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023
• McGee left the stage for a moment, then heard an eruption of laughter from the audience.
  — Maggie Duffy, Orlando Sentinel, 26 July 2024
• That was seen as a distant prospect until the recent eruption.
  — Hannah Allam, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023
• Live footage of the eruption can be viewed online via the USGS’ webcam.
  — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 7 June 2023
• Despite that mismatch with the start of warming, the study did find a match between the eruptions and the later peak warmth during the MCO.
  — Howard Lee, Ars Technica, 8 Sep. 2024
• Pliny the Younger in letters described shaking ground around the time of Vesuvius’s eruption.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 18 July 2024
• Basalt stalled in the crust Can a single factor explain warming before the eruptions and also peak warming with the eruptions?
  — Howard Lee, Ars Technica, 8 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Oct 2024