Example Sentences

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Voters from less enfranchised areas will fume if services and shelters are forced into their neighborhoods, but they often don’t show up at meetings.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2022

It means either Turkey or Holland could get lucky and face his understudy, while the other will fume if they are unlucky enough to face one of the world’s best goalkeepers.

From The Guardian • Oct. 8, 2015

They will fume and prevaricate for a few weeks and then, if their pollsters read the owl droppings and find omens of the American People Moving On, the party will find a new issue.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2010

Purists will fume, but what is worse is that such permissiveness can only invite a further tattering of the language -- and already has.

From Time Magazine Archive

He will fume and stamp and spurn it, but he will go, all the same.

From The Baronet's Bride by Fleming, May Agnes