Example sentences for: plume

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

  • 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?

  • 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.

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

  • Another item in the same section refers to “forebearing” friends, who I assume are those who had offspring before the author (clearly a woman using a nom de plume).

  • It's hard to believe that an explosion that vented plutonium into the atmosphere at the country's largest nuclear weapons storage facility doesn't make anybody's front page, but in fact you have to go inside the LAT and WP to read about the "near-complete breakdown in emergency response" at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation two months ago after an accident there, "exposing workers to a toxic plume and leaving outside authorities unaware of the danger until hours after the event."


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