Sentence examples for fumes from inspiring English sources

'fumes' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used as a noun to refer to an unpleasant odor, or as a verb to refer to the release of such an odor. Example sentence: The pungent fumes from the factory caused the nearby residents to complain about air pollution.

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fumes

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Third person singular of fume

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For weeks, even months, they would refuse shampoo, resulting in hair that emitted cheap cider and bong fumes wherever they went and gradually became lanker, greasier and flatter.

They will now have to come up with an urgent plan to rid our towns and cities of cancer-causing diesel fumes," said Alan Andrews, lawyer with Client Earth which brought the case.

Toxic fumes made many of them ill and sapped their energy.

State records indicate that employees at a Houston area pesticide plant where a poisonous gas leak killed four workers in November may have been periodically exposed to the dangerous fumes for years.

Turner also had an estranged mistress, Sarah Danby Ruth Sheen Hannahnnah's aunt – with whom he had daughters, and who in the film "fumes with grievances against him".

"The fumes from the glue gave me constant headaches," she says.

Wearing a medical mask would have been an intelligent precaution: I've been deep-breathing dust and exhaust fumes for three days and can feel my lungs tightening up.

"This business of running parliament like it was a senior common room in a public school – it's appalling," she fumes.

On the Santacruz skywalk on the Western Express Highway, however, the experience is overpowered by the fumes and dust wafting up from the busy road beneath.

What has been reported from Teflon use is a risk of fumes from overheating pans, giving people temporary flu-like symptoms and sickness – known as polymer-fume fever.

Pushing himself off the floor, he managed to force the door back over the heat and fumes.

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