Example sentences for: plume

How can you use “plume” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In college I participated in an essay contest that required entrants to use a nom de plume.

  • TIMOTHY: Maybe au fond I'm just a philistine, but I can never quite convince myself that artists obsessed with the naked human form aren't pornographers, by any other nom de plume.

  • This nom de plume, as is known, means `Peace Be Upon You' and it strikes us as absurd to see him referred to as “Be Upon You” or Mr. “Upon You.”

  • When I was young at the bar I heard with delight an old lawyer, who could have played Dickens's Mr. Tulkinghorn, speak grandly of the court of nisi prius (pronouncing it NICEY PRY-US), an utterly obsolete Latinism for the simple trial court . Just as any speaker may, for the sake of euphony (or vanity) flourish an occasional eminence grise or mirabile dictu , may not a lawyer plume himself now and then with an ab initio or even a mutatis mutandis , not to “unite the priesthood’ but to savor his own sonority, as a bird sings also for itself?

  • Its chief failing, however, is that it allows you to easily pull the spout lever and release a plume of steam--aimed directly at your fingers.


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