Example sentences for: plume

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

  • The ostensible reason for such name changes was to confuse the tsarist police, but consideration of the root meanings of the names chosen by the revolutionaries reveals that the sobriquets were at least as much noms de guerre as noms de plume or cover names.

  • 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.”

  • The toxicity of receiving water samples from five stations in the discharge plume can be evaluated using the same number of test vessels and test organisms as used in one effluent toxicity test with five effluent dilutions.

  • 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.

  • Each of the Twelve Days is illustrated by suitably warm and friendly drawings by Scott Partridge (warranted personally by Bernard to be neither a nom de plume, de guerre, nor de chanson).


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