How to Use fumarole in a Sentence

fumarole

noun
  • But what most excited us were the geysers, hot springs, fumaroles, mud pots, and steam vents.
    Lauret Savoy, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Calderas, fumaroles, volcanic lakes and thermal springs dot the landscape.
    Eva Sohlman, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2019
  • These wheezing, roaring fumaroles dyed much of the landscape a bright yellow.
    Eva Sohlman, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Its fumaroles are active enough that visitors wear gas masks to avoid breathing the acrid sulfur gas.
    Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 9 Dec. 2019
  • The center of the island supports a field of fumaroles, openings through which hot gases emerge.
    Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2019
  • Moss and ferns sprouted aggressively near steaming fumaroles at the edges of the road.
    Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
  • Hot springs, bubbling pools, mud pots, fumaroles and lakeshore geysers empty into the lake’s chilly waters.
    Niloufer Venkatraman, National Geographic, 13 June 2019
  • The volcano is considered dormant, rather than extinct, as hot springs and fumaroles (gas and steam vents) are still present.
    David Bressan, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Steam rises from the hot springs and fumaroles that pockmark this dormant volcano, and two small glaciers provide dazzling views.
    National Geographic, 29 May 2019
  • Rising hot water boils to form pools and mud pots, while steam reaches the surface through fractures in the Earth to form fumaroles.
    Mike Morris, latimes.com, 12 July 2019
  • Whether smoking fumaroles, loud bangs, tremors, lava flows, or full on eruptions, Etna is always awake.
    Erica Firpo, AFAR Media, 4 June 2025
  • The herd was moving south, away from the lake and towards a geyser basin where the dirt was warm from underground volcanos, where openings in the earth breathed vapour from fumaroles.
    Hazlitt, 5 June 2024
  • The Hot Rocks fumarole, where the heat from the earth never allows snow to accumulate, is just climber’s left.
    Outside Online, 29 May 2022
  • Bumpass Hell is only open to see its fumaroles, mud pots and boiling waters from mid-summer to mid-fall, as otherwise it is covered in snow.
    Jenny Peters, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Its rugged landscape is shaped by geothermal activity, with fumaroles, mud baths, and natural saunas in place of sandy beaches.
    Nicky Swallow, Travel + Leisure, 17 May 2026
  • Its rugged landscape is shaped by geothermal activity, with fumaroles, mud baths, and natural saunas in place of sandy beaches.
    Nicky Swallow, Travel + Leisure, 19 Aug. 2025
  • For scuba divers who prefer to spend their time under the sea, there are plenty of tour operators to take you diving among the reefs and to see bubbling fumaroles.
    Jamie Ditaranto, Travel + Leisure, 4 Sep. 2023
  • The only signal could be increasing temperature of fumarole and crater lakes as the crater vent area heats up — but that might not even be necessary.
    Erik Klemetti, WIRED, 28 Sep. 2014
  • The only signal could be increasing temperature of fumarole and crater lakes as the crater vent area heats up -- but that might not even be necessary.
    Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 28 Sep. 2014
  • The yellow crust around steam vents (known as fumaroles) is evidence of sulfur crystallising out of gases and liquids at these volcanoes.
    Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2023
  • Explore bubbling mud pots, steaming fumaroles, and lava castles around Lake Mývatn.
    National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • At the time, Lassen Peak was actively erupting, and there are still plenty of boiling mud pots, evil-smelling steam vents and fumaroles and poison lakes today.
    Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Occasionally this volcano near Bellingham will show off a small fumarole (hot gas vent) that will get people's attention.
    Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 20 May 2024
  • Picture a landscape of steaming hot springs and fumaroles, gurgling mud pools and geothermal fields encircled by bright green mountains and lush botanical gardens.
    Jennifer Leigh Parker, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
  • The smoking fumaroles, sky-blue hot springs, and mossy hills intermingle to create the kinds of pastel neon sediments normally found in cartoons, not nature.
    Mosha Lundström Halbert, Vogue, 9 Sep. 2017
  • The fumaroles, steam plumes and bubbling, bursting geysers put on an impressive natural exhibition.
    Photographs By Adam Harteau, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2017
  • This geothermal wonderland is home to numerous volcanoes, geysers, smoking fumaroles, and hot springs.
    Joe Yogerst, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
  • Bumpass Hell basin is an area of hydrothermal fumaroles and boiling mud pits crossed by a boardwalk, also recently reconstructed.
    Red Bluff Daily News, The Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Dive to find undersea treasures like the Champagne Reef, which explodes with tiny bubbles from active fumaroles (where hot volcanic gas is released).
    Paul Rubio, AFAR Media, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Heat and volcanic activity from the depths of Earth power this dramatic landscape, evidenced by its geysers, fumaroles, and hot springs.
    Niloufer Venkatraman, National Geographic, 13 June 2019

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