Example Sentences

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Stepping out of the truck, Avery looked up and saw flames and smoke pluming into the night sky.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2023

Elizabeth Leddy, 28, from Poole said: "The amount of smoke pluming out was like no heath fire I've seen before."

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2022

Crews arrived to find heavy fire and black smoke pluming from the single-level home.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 11, 2021

As we’re now seeing again in other places, the skyline was pluming with smoke, and the National Guard drove in.

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2020

They trudged on the packed-dirt road, breath pluming in front of them as they went.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack