plume
noun
a feather.
Example Sentences
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Pasadena-based nonprofit Carbon Mapper, which partners with the state, can now check twice as often for climate-heating methane plumes, improving the emerging picture of this invisible gas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Video shared on social media showed a crashed plane with the Amazon logo on the tail engulfed in plumes of black smoke.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
While roaring fires and vast plumes of smoke proved spectacular, a more creeping disaster was also spreading: drought.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Environmental specialist Peter Cunningham told AFP that potential sediment plumes could impact rocky shoreline habitats, crayfish spawning and breeding species.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Ekon watched him disappear into the plumes of smoke.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
