fulminate
verb (used without object)
to explode with a loud noise; detonate.
fulminates
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present tense formof fulminate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Mr. Vance fulminates: “Never have I read a purer distillation of our worship at the altar of commerce.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
“They are coming, they are coming, they are coming!” he fulminates in a clip the parents’ legal team plays for him during his 2019 deposition, at which he seems unmoved.
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2024
“But even if money spent now saves money later, so what?” he fulminates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2021
He fulminates fire, of course, if he has remembered to change his flint, and, all in all, it’s just as well that he is invisible most of the time.
From Time ● Aug. 11, 2016
Manufacture of nitro-glycerine, 17. cordite, 169. roburite, 140. fulminates, 162. tonite, 84. di-nitro-benzene, 138. nitro-starch, 103. celluloid, 91.
From Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise by P. Gerald (Percy Gerald) Sanford
