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How to use fumes in a sentence

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In the mid-distance a cottage is burning, as smoke violently billows and fumes.
As cellulose nitrate rots, it shrinks and becomes brittle, leaking toxic fumes corrosive enough to turn a reel of film into smelly gelatin ooze.
The fumes of the soup went into my mouth, and I was able to taste bits and pieces of it, and I liked what I did taste.
After a moment, the fumes of the dried plants filled my nostrils, and I soon lost consciousness.
Last night, police were forced to cordon off nearby roads and reroute rush hour traffic as toxic fumes poured into the sky.
Electrical sparks from fans may increase the chance of flammable paint strippers fumes to catch fire.
Dave, Geoff and myself had very severe hangovers and someone complained that the air in the cave smelt of stale beer fumes.
Suffocating, I crane my head above the crowd, gasping for air but taking in only steaming sweat and fumes of scotch.
A well-groomed carpet of grass may be nice to look at, but gas-powered mowers pollute the air with noxious fumes.
But on 6 March of that year Ross Lockridge killed himself with the fumes from his car exhaust.
The closer I got to her room, the stronger I could smell the noxious fumes.
The noxious fumes are believed to have been caused by a sulphuric acid-based cleaning agent.
If you suspect that someone has inhaled poisonous fumes, first assess the situation and your risk.
Respirators must be worn if the ambient concentration of welding fumes exceeds prescribed exposure limits.
This should be followed by banning power stations, which spew out fumes and greenhouse gases.
Visitors have to contend with toxic gases, noxious fumes, and showers of hot ash.
We invariably travelled on some clapped-out smelly bus that made us nauseous with the diesel fumes.
I do feel that if you decide not to smoke, you shouldn't have the smelly fumes wafting over from someone who does.
With a sputtering cough, Cyrus was jerked back into consciousness, the acrid ammonia fumes of the smelling salts under his nose doing their job.
Exhaust fumes from cars and factories make for a toxic, suffocating smog that hangs over the city.
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But Thrasydaeus was laid asleep the while where the fumes of wine had overpowered him.
Emma devoured them, gluttonously and absorbed their precepts as the human system absorbs alcohol fumes.
A few couples were beginning to gyrate among the fumes of spaghetti and vin ordinaire.
Its fumes, being heavier than air, penetrate the burrows and promptly poison or asphyxiate all living animals and fleas.
For that reason, as well as because of the fumes in his brain, he did not hear the coming of the automobile.
By continuance of heat it calcines in white fumes, called argentine flowers of antimony, which melt into a hyacinthine glass.
It was filled with a noisy crew, as well as with tobacco-smoke and spirituous fumes.
He straightened his slouched shoulders, and the fog left his eyes and the fumes of staling alcohol quit his brain.
The fumes given off by acetone, benzine, xylene, and formaldehyde are toxic and may cause sickness.
He paused a moment at the gate, and as he stood the wind-borne fumes began their subtle work.
A common warm bath, with a little powdered benzoin laid on a heated plate near the bather, so that the fumes may be inhaled.
Effervescent citrus and biodiesel fumes, moist vegetation and the hum of lazy high noon bugs.
All red stamps with cochineal are subject to oxidization from dampness, sulphur fumes, etc.
And betimes eating cheese and crackers, and drinking beer, and surfeiting the air with the delicious fumes of his strong pipe.
I swang the censer and drank deep of the incense fumes as I chanted in Syriac the service.
Sir Humphry Davy observed that the fumes which escaped from Vesuvian lava deposited common salt.
They were like men who had crept into a limekiln for warmth, and by mischance were stupefied by the fumes and were being roasted.
Their clothing, hands and faces were stained yellow from the lyddite fumes.
Back to the British trenches also wafted the sickly fumes of lyddite and cresolite.
Exposure to ammoniacal fumes, or even handling it much with the fingers, changes its red to a crimson or purplish hue.
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