plume
noun
a feather.
Example Sentences
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The strikes on the St. Petersburg oil infrastructure, including an oil depot, sent huge plumes of smoke into the air.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
The illuminated exhaust plumes were visible across the eastern United States, giving observers a remarkable view of the rocket's journey into space.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
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
While roaring fires and vast plumes of smoke proved spectacular, a more creeping disaster was also spreading: drought.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
This angry black cloud looked nothing like the wispy gray plumes they’d seen from Cedar.
From "I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980" by Lauren Tarshis
