Breeding birds have fine buffy plumes on the back and neck, and elongated crown plumes, as do many other egrets.
A 2003 report by the National Research Council predicted that the oil in a deepwater blowout could break into fine droplets, forming plumes of oil mixed with water that would not quickly rise to the surface.
They were not looking for oil on the surface, where it was so thick in places that it was being burned off, but for plumes of fine oil droplets far beneath the waves.
From the Iraqi side, trucks loaded with Yazidi refugees streamed through in plumes of fine dust, met by Syrian volunteers handing them cartons of fruit juice, biscuits, and cigarettes.
His journey's final leg is in the city's finest hearse, black ostrich plumes nodding; at last beyond dismay.
Fortunately, the elevator lands safely, kicking up a plume of fine dust less than 20 feet from Jason's outstretched robotic arm.
When players look up for their serve, the whack of the ball releases a plume of fine soil that rains down on their faces.
Face, hair, flower, plumed hat, fine clothes -- everything is captured in networks of parallel lines and crosshatchings of almost microscopic fineness.
It is not the ribbon of water I saw from a fly-over on my first trip, when a bouncy small plane ride went past a thin plume of fine misty spray which I would have missed without the fingerpoint and nod from the pilot.
) The images taken in November 2005 showed the plume's fine structure, revealing numerous jets (perhaps issuing from numerous distinct vents) within a larger, faint component extending out nearly 500 km from the surface, thus making Enceladus the fourth body in the Solar System to have confirmed contemporary volcanic activity, along with Earth, Neptune's Triton, and Jupiter's Io.
