Fume

"Fume" in a Sentence (21 examples)

Don't just sit there and fume. Tell me what's wrong.

The uncertainty of the moment has left him to fume almost daily on Twitter about what he sees as the unfairness of the case against him.

The queue for the water park slide was shorter than for the new log fume ride.

He speaks to me, I fume internally.

Don't stand around in there breathing the fumes while the adhesive cures.

the fumes of new-shorn hay

Lead fume is a greyish powder, mainly comprising lead sulfate.

The Fumes of his Passion do as really intoxicate and confound his judging and discerning Faculty , as the Fumes of Drink discompose and stupify the Brain of a Man over - charged with it.

In his execution of this mission, Mr Tinkler perhaps expressed that Mr Dorrit was in a raging fume.

a show of fumes and fancies

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to smother him with fumes and eulogies

Tyrian garbs, / Neptunian Albion's high teſtaceous food [i.e., oysters], / And flavour'd Chian wines with incenſe fum'd / To ſlake Patrician thirſt: for theſe, their rights / In the vile ſtreets they proſtitute to ſale; / Their ancient rights, their dignities, their laws, / Their native glorious freedom.

where the golden altar fumed

Young Chromis and Mnaſylus chanc'd to ſtray / Where (ſleeping in a cave) Silenus lay, / Whoſe conſtant cups fly fuming to his brain, / And always boil in each extended vein; / His truſty flaggon, full of potent juice, / Was hanging by, worn thin with age and uſe; [...]

whose parts are kept from fuming away, not only by their fixity[…]

He’s still fuming about the argument they had yesterday.

He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground.

Her mother did fret, and her father did fume.

His strong stand has made him a lightning rod for criticism by rail proponents, including some of his own friends. Herb Bridge […] is among Freeman's critics on the rail issue. "[…] I think he has an elitist attitude and doesn't want poor people in his mall," fumed Bridge, who operates a store in Freeman's mall.

"Whoever is doing this is not just showing immense disrespect to me as a teacher, but also to the whole Torah and to this whole class and school!" he fumed. "And to God!"

Keep his brain fuming.

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