How To Use Fumes In A Sentence

The chemical toxicity of inhaled uranium trioxide (uranyl oxide) gas vapor fumes is much worse - about a million times worse - than the radiation from inhalation of any of the other oxides.
In addition to the NOx adsorber and the DPF, the 6. 7-liter turbodiesel engine includes a cooled exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system and high-flow, electronically controlled Variable Geometry Turbocharger (VGT ™); an oxidation catalyst within the exhaust system; and a new closed crankcase ventilation system that eliminates crankcase fumes and oil carryover. Autoblog
So asking them to use mild soaps and weaning them away from perfumes and deodorants is our primary task,’ he said.
Exhaust fumes from the Apache engines are also cooled as they emerge to make it difficult for heat-seeking missiles to seek and destroy the aircraft.
Exhaust fumes made him drowsy and brought on a headache.

Things which experience gradual withdrawings and emptyings of their nature, and great and sudden replenishments, fail to perceive the emptying, but are sensible of the replenishment; and so they occasion no pain, but the greatest pleasure, to the mortal part of the soul, as is manifest in the case of perfumes. Timaeus
You didn't mention what fumes were given off by the overheated coating, but I was told at the time that it was similar to mustard gas.
OK, our garden is based around ethnobotanical plants which are useful to people, not only for foods and medicines, but also for fibres, dyes, cosmetics, perfumes, poisons and so on.
(O father of a felt calotte!) 75 In times of mourning Moslem women do not use perfumes or dyes, like the Henna here alluded to in the pink legs and feet of the dove. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
I couldn't breathe, the fumes were suffocating me.
They were found in the hold of the vessel after being overcome by fumes from the engine. The Sun
The new perfumes contain historical references yet don't feel old-fashioned. Times, Sunday Times
These alloys are very toxic and dangerous if beryllium fumes are not captured and exhausted by proper ventilating equipment.
Unleashed, she is a maenad: not crabby but sardonic and perpetually restless, she scrambles over the stage, squaring up to several men at a time; she drinks from a hip flask; she wees; she smokes – and she fumes. The Taming of the Shrew; The Trial of Ubu; Our New Girl – review
The fumes can also trigger asthma attacks. The Sun
Because of its sweet smell, it was used in perfumes and incense. Times, Sunday Times
They can be put into bags or poured onto rags and the fumes inhaled. Taking Drugs Seriously
Luckily I smelled the noxious fumes, ran upstairs and managed to extinguish it.
It first branched out into cosmetics and perfumes in 1990 and in 1994 moved its headquarters for those businesses to New York.
They fled their homes with a few personal belongings, escaping the acrid sulphuric fumes and lava of an erupting volcano.
Once the ventilator shaft became blocked, the warehouse quickly filled with fumes.
We invariably travelled on some clapped-out smelly bus that made us nauseous with the diesel fumes.
Fans stopped exhaust fumes heating it up. The Sun
A well-groomed carpet of grass may be nice to look at, but gas-powered mowers pollute the air with noxious fumes.
Even the lightest, most flowery perfumes contain a trace of musk.
The council's political masters would rather watch while York chokes than get serious about exhaust fumes.
There was serious talk of ecological suicide, criminal irresponsibility and the evils of toxic fumes merging with alcoholic ones.
They were fond of perfumes, and their delightful ottar was the principal favourite. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 380, July 11, 1829
The National Institute on Drug Abuse has estimated that 1, 000 teens die annually by breathing fumes from easily accessible products.
A: Sometimes a small amount of fuel will slosh out of the fuel-filler tube before the gas pump's automatic shutoff kicks in, and it can produce enough fumes to be smelly for a while. Me & My Car
Dense smoke swirled and billowed, its rank fumes choking her.
The combination of early breakfast, exhaust fumes and nerves is a potent cocktail!
If you smell gas fumes or burning, take the car to your mechanic.
I could scent familiar, ancient perfumes, traces of mustier smells. The Dreamthief's Daughter
The odor of the fumes is so strong that I start a couple of oscillating fans to clear the fumes out of the house, that doesn't seem to affect the effectiveness of it. Now it's Dengue/Breakbone Fever
The devil, realising that he had been fooled, disappeared in an awe-inspiring cloud of smoke and sulphur fumes; but the bridge remained, and its name to this day recalls the discomfiture of his evil plans. Legend Land, Vol. 1 Being a collection of some of the Old Tales told in those Western Parts of Britain served by The Great Western Railway.
Rooms were hazed with the fumes from the keproot pipes of the addicted and fuggy with the smell of the resins smouldering in the censers. Rogue Rainlord
The best-known cause of contact dermatitis is poison ivy, but there are many others, including chemicals found in laundry detergent, cosmetics, and perfumes, and metals like the nickel plating on a belt buckle.
Her first feature, La Ciénaga, or The Swamp, exuded a fetid, toxic atmosphere: a film on the verge of swooning, overcome by its own unwholesomely sensual fumes.
The incense employed in the service of the tabernacle walls compounded of the perfumes stacte, onycha, galbanum and pure frankincense. Smith's Bible Dictionary
The so-called hybrid bus is virtually silent and produces fewer exhaust fumes.
In addition to poisons, smoke and fumes, steelworkers are exposed on an almost continuous basis to such toxic substances as tar, benzene and hydrochloric acid, to name only a few.
Of course, some flowers are used for personal adornment, both the blossoms themselves and their essences in the form of perfumes.
A few years ago, Fremont Street was choked with cars, cabs, exhaust fumes and even a few gamblers.
Amazingly, there is a condition called bronchiolitis obliterans (popcorn workers lung) that some workers in popcorn factories suffer from since they inhale the fumes on a regular basis. Progressive Bloggers
Edit. of certain perfumes, by burning which she could summon the Queen of the Jinn. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Research suggests that people wearing perfumes and aftershave are more likely to be bitten, as are beer drinkers. Times, Sunday Times
The candles lost their power; and the fumes of incense were just that; the smell of smoke, and nothing more.
There are many sources of air pollution ; exhaust fumes, for example.
As the youth is guided to his bed, he is assaulted by ‘unspeakable odors’ that seem to be ‘the fumes from a thousand bygone debauches’.
Investigators said he was smoking marijuana and inhaling paint thinners when a burning candle ignited the fumes.
It should hardly need mentioning that the welfare of users demands that all interiors be free of products that emit unpleasant or noxious fumes. A Philosophy of Interior Design
To be blanched or gay-painted by fumes – to be cindered by fires – Archive 2009-06-14
These fires produce really obnoxious fumes and smoke.
The owner of the car garage, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was parking cars on the land, often disturbing his neighbour with noise and fumes at unsociable hours.
A STUDENT died after being overcome from noxious fumes at a university halls of residence. The Sun
Two school friends have died after being overcome by leaking gas fumes in holiday accommodation. Times, Sunday Times
On the left flank, the tank crews were overcome with fumes from the engine and got lost. The Sun
Page 423 fumes or exhalations, from this bed of clay, may have a vivific nutritive quality, and be received by the fibres of the roots, or being condensed in the atmosphere by nocturnal chills, fall with dews upon the leaves and twigs of these plants, and there absorbed, become nutritive or exhilerating to them. Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Producti
With the loan, she will buy perfumes, deodorants, talcs, and jewelry in bulk and at discount which will allow her to save so she may pursue her education and finish university. Kiva Loans
While resetting circuit breakers in the midsection of the aircraft, they noticed smoke and fumes.
We invariably travelled on some clapped-out smelly bus that made us nauseous with the diesel fumes.
A truck rumbled past like a snorting bull, leaving a trail of noise and diesel fumes.
And far away the whaup wheepled in protest, the burn still grumbled, and the perfumes, and the sounds of the glen and all its beauty were as if they had never existed, and the thick cloud grew blacker over the face of the moon. The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner
What makes essential oils different from the synthetic perfumes sold in most mass-market retail outlets?
(The expression "Mad as a hatter" comes from the damage done by exposure to the fumes of mercury. What Is It? Game 114
It needed four drivers to control it and filled with carbon monoxide fumes so quickly that they had to wear gas masks. Times, Sunday Times
A young man and teenage girl have died after poisonous fumes leaked from a gas boiler.
They may be thought of as “Oriental” blends, a category that encompasses many different perfumes, but they are not the sweetly ambery/vanillic scents you may find listed as Orientals among modern mainstream fragrances. DSH Perfumes Part Four: Roses and Resins
In the bower with his Welsh wife, Mortimer fumes impotently: ‘This is the deadly spite that angers me - / My wife can speak no English, and I no Welsh.’
Here, the participants in the ceremony will sit and inhale the hot fumes of el abuelo humo—“grandfather smoke.” Down and Delirious in Mexico City
This goes on for two days, after which they clutter off in a haze of petrol and alcohol fumes, leaving you feeling hungover but jolly happy. Times, Sunday Times
We were further lulled into peace by the hypnotic clonking of their bells and the heady perfumes of alpine flowers.
Do not use the stove inside a tent because of the risk of fire and toxic fumes.
The American boys who for weeks in 2005 in Iraq shared with me their army-issue meals, their menthol cigarettes, their water, and their heartbreak in an armored humvee5 with a faulty air conditioner—once, on my thirtieth birthday, it choked all of us with sour Freon fumes—write me occasionally. Peace Meals
I am mostly concerned about the amount of exhaust fumes we are being subjected to.
The enargite of the Butte copper ores (pp. 201-203) contains a considerable amount of arsenic, a large part of which will be recovered from the smelter fumes by new processes which are being installed. The Economic Aspect of Geology
It is caused by diesel fumes belching from the packed vehicles and halfway-wrecked lorries that clog the roads.
Cooking fumes may activate the alarm.
It smelled wonderful - a delicate fragrance lost between the natural perfumes of the world.
Although these paints emit fumes of white spirits and are harder to dispose of than paints with a water-base, decorators continue to use them for wood and gloss finishes indoors.
Brewer fumes at the oil-services giant's tactics, which he calls hypocritical and reminiscent of the rhetorical handsprings of the Forbes.com: News
An elderly man died from inhaling poisonous fumes as he tried to put out a fire at his home.
I was really expecting for something truly new from Kenzo Amour, and instead I got quotes from different perfumes: The base is powdery musk and vanilla, as in Flower, or the signature dry down of the Ormonde Jayne line The tartness of Amour reminds me of the pink pepper and dates notes in Ta’if, and the steam rice recalls the basmati rice in Champaca. Archive 2006-09-01
He was dishevelled, unshaven, his comb-over in disarray, and clouds of whiskey-fumes rose in a steady haze from between his chapped lips.
Particularly if the rail system was electrified, it would not put the same degree of fumes into the air as motor vehicles do.
He was going to varnish the new pine doors but he was already reeling from the fumes from the paint.
Burning glue sent noxious fumes into the night sky in Brentford this week, after a factory caught fire near the Great West Road.
His illness is a result of breathing in paint fumes over many years.
The mouth of the crucible is closed with a luting of clay, or otherwise, and the opening, _d_, made in the upper side of the crucible, near its extremity, comes entirely within the retort, and forms a passage for the zinc fumes from the retort chamber into the condensing chamber. Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885
We stock a wide range of perfumes.
They are a means for these companies to make perfumes free from the trammels of market forces and demographics. Times, Sunday Times
Both are gum resins from plants of the bursera family found in the Middle East and Africa that were used to make perfumes and incense. RockyMountainNews.com
Stepping off the ferry, I am overwhelmed by the perfumes of rosemary, sage and lavender.
The second youth, probably seeking to rescue the first, was probably overcome by fumes as well.
Walk on the inside to avoid the traffic fumes.
The shrine room was full of fragrant fumes of agarbathis and camphor and warm with the burning oil lamps.
He also wraps a scarf or mask around his face to protect him from car fumes, which have been shown to harm seminal fluid. The Sun
Two cops who found him also needed hospital treatment after being overcome by toxic fumes. The Sun
The fumes of alcohol rising from it burned his nose.
It's into the car and close the boot, Petrol fumes instead of soot.
But on 6 March of that year Ross Lockridge killed himself with the fumes from his car exhaust.
Some even began wearing gas masks to block the suspicious fumes.
If you smell gas fumes or burning, take the car to your mechanic.
With the car standing motionless now but with the engine still idling, she can smell foul fumes and heat.
Charisma by Madame Tussaud", fumes venerable film critic Roger Ebert, as the film prepares effortlessly to hold its position at the top of the box office on both sides of the Atlantic this weekend.
The combination of these two exquisite perfumes seemed to make the boskiness more bosky. Police!!!
At the moment paraffin lamps are used that give off fumes, and the paraffin has to be paid for. Times, Sunday Times
There are many sources of air pollution ; exhaust fumes, for example.
Using bright colors and sweet perfumes, many orchids falsely advertise a meal of pollen and nectar.
Fumes and kish (graphite flakes from the carbon saturated hot metal) are emitted from the vessel's mouth and collected by the pollution control system.
The primary purpose of a laboratory hood is to keep toxic or irritating vapors and fumes out of the general laboratory working area.
The fumes of the most disordered imaginations were recorded in their religious code, as special communications of the Deity; and as it could not but happen that, in the course of ages events would now and then turn up to which some of these vague rhapsodies might be accommodated by the aid of allegories, figures, types, and other tricks upon words, they have not only preserved their credit with the Jews of all subsequent times, but are the foundation of much of the religions of those who have schismatized from them. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4
Stick the same thing outside a café and they will use it, because now its purpose is clear (and they've paid for their coffee so by gum they're going to get their money's worth and bloody well sit there and to hell with the traffic fumes!).
He came up close, breathing alcohol fumes all over me.
She recalled waking up after sleeping amid the fumes. The Sun
A tiny fire of dead greasewood branches warms my hands and perfumes the air with pungent woodsmoke.
A pungent mix of sage and frankincense fumes away in a censer on the front counter, while in the back, a row of nervous customers await their consultation with Obaike, the in-house santero, or spirit doctor.
But although government agencies now admit that neurotoxins - for example isomers of tri-cresyl phosphate - are present in these fumes, they claim their quantities pose no threat to health. HEADLINES
A heavy pall of dense black smoke and fumes poured from the building.
'Seven sailors had to be airlifted from a Royal Navy aircraft carrier after being overcome by fumes in one of the ship's toilets. Archive 2007-03-11
Places where poisonous fumes belch from endless streams of cars.
The café is smart, and the shops sells every item which can conceivably be lavender scented - from soaps and candles to incense burners and perfumes.
The restaurant is warm and welcoming, an open kitchen fires out heady fumes of garlic, the servers are friendly and helpful, and the prices are great.
Investigators concluded damaged wiring may have provided the spark that ignited fumes in the fuel tank.
It will give off fumes and smoke the first time you use your stove, so open doors and windows. Times, Sunday Times
There was a pervasive smell in the gallery, of wood polish, burnt toast and lingering coffee fumes. Seminary Boy
The whole of central London is not entirely choked by noxious fumes, though. Times, Sunday Times
They were found in the hold of the vessel after being overcome by fumes from the engine. The Sun
The filtration system provides the crew with clean air free from fumes.
It says that the driver knows where he is going and that there are more than two fumes in the fuel tank. Times, Sunday Times
Susan always thought of second - floor alcoved bedrooms as filled with the pungent fumes of Miss Saturday's Child
Back in the car, filled with the fumes of composting grass cuttings, Graham was playing solitaire on his PDA while waiting.
The smoke and fumes almost suffocated me.
She mourns his suicide, begging his proud image: what were you thinking in the monoxide fumes? Times, Sunday Times
Formic acid is also used in fumigants, refrigerants, solvents for perfumes and lacquers, brewing, and silvering glass.
The thick hazy air was crackling with diesel fumes as well, and a shantytown stink intruded even into this enclave of wealth. T2©: RISING STORM
Further risks are the increase in diesel fumes, back injuries, dermatitis and stress-related problems - all increasing in coal mines.
When toxic fumes began to drift toward our homes, we were told to evacuate.
Walk on the inside to avoid the traffic fumes.
Recent studies have borne out claims that certain perfumes can bring about profound psychological changes.
The air is heavily polluted with traffic fumes.
The carbon deposit was thought to come from car exhaust fumes from a large car park close to the church.
Factory chimneys spewed fumes out into the sky.
UGH … as if the world needs more celebrity fragrances but … I have to say, the idea to team up with Topps to produce and sell this new line of sweet smelling perfumes is ingenuous! Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business » Blog Archive » Mariah Carey Releases A New Fragrance Line Called ‘Lollipop Bling’
Laboratory space, particularly hoods (the kind exhausted only by draft caused by a gas burner causing warm air to raise and take some of the obnoxious fumes through a chimney) was very scarce and even by the time I became an assistant professor it was not welcome to "pollute" more important conventional work. George A. Olah - Autobiography
Some people emit negative fumes, while others vibrate positive energy. Stay close to the positive ones; otherwise you will be smoked to death. RVM
The new tanks won't allow sulfureous fumes to vent into the atmosphere.
The juice was marvellous, cutting through the taste of dust and diesel fumes.
A night in a honky-tonk ensues, during which Henry and Carol dance the night away as Wayne glowers and fumes on the sidelines; he's actually jealous of this old guy out there with his young wife.
The main corridor then leads past two shops featuring clothing, perfumes, jewelry and souvenirs, and a double row of cubic insets displaying colorful Greek rocks and gems.
Before breakfast, she would wander about the gardens until her clothes were filled with all the fragrant perfumes of the flowers.
I do feel that if you decide not to smoke, you shouldn't have the smelly fumes wafting over from someone who does.
Those "costly programs" are the same ones that resulted in thousands of people being cooped up in improperly prepared trailers that "outgassed" formaldehyde fumes, and that government "inability" has doomed at least a hundred thousand people to long-term exile from their homes. Harry Shearer: Lessons Not Learned: Forget About Disaster Housing from FEMA
Its woodsy 37 miles runs through southwestern Connecticut, and, during off-peak hours, is a lovely alternative to the truck fumes of I - 95.
Perfumes or fragrances are always sure to make her happy, just be sure to know whether she prefers classy fragrances or sporty perfumes.
AN expat couple died of carbon monoxide fumes from a faulty boiler. The Sun
It says that the driver knows where he is going and that there are more than two fumes in the fuel tank. Times, Sunday Times
Recent studies have borne out claims that certain perfumes can bring about profound psychological changes.
Chypre perfumes are often described as mossy, earthy, warm, spicy and nature-smelling. What do Chypres Smell Like?
Eighteen-year-old Jennie Whalley was overcome by carbon monoxide fumes while sitting in a car parked in a garage.
One company seals the glass vials with nitrogen and another packs them in full-cream powdered milk to deactivate the fumes if the glass breaks during delivery.
Cooking fumes may activate the alarm.
She was invalided out of South Wales Police with a stress-related illness in 1992, after being traumatised by discovering a man who had killed himself with exhaust fumes in his car.
Exhaust fumes from cars and factories make for a toxic, suffocating smog that hangs over the city.
Dave, Geoff and myself had very severe hangovers and someone complained that the air in the cave smelt of stale beer fumes.
The consequent noise, fumes and danger will undermine efforts to breathe new life into towns and cities.
The fumes of alcohol and tobacco were poisonous.
For a long time after, she wanted to firebomb his house, the one in which she now house-sat, but gasoline fumes gave her migraines. The House-Sitter
I am worried about possible toxic effects, from the petrol fumes, and the asbestos.
Minerva was almost overcome by the fumes of hair products when she recently visited her hairdresser.
She became ill shortly after inhaling the fumes.
Sometimes exhaust fumes escape into the vehicle.
She worked as a secretary and had no occupational exposure to toxic fumes.
“Take a glass of wine, Sir Arthur, and drink down that bead-roll of unbaptized jargon, that would choke the devil — why, that last fellow has the only intelligible name you have repeated — they are all of the tribe of Macfungus — mushroom monarchs every one of them; sprung up from the fumes of conceit, folly, and falsehood, fermenting in the brains of some mad Highland seannachie.” The Antiquary
There are also recipes for nightime face elixirs, solid and liquid perfumes, and moisturizing body oils.
Potentially harmful polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons or PAHs for short, heterocyclic amines, and higher and mutagenic aldehydes, along with fine and ultrafine particles, have all been found in cooking fumes, using vegetable oils, such as safflower, soya bean, and rapeseed oils, as well as lard. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
‘Musk was still commonly used in perfumes by top perfumers in Western Europe and Japan during the 1980s,’ he said.
The King soon afterward expired; and his heart was taken out from his body and embalmed, that is, prepared with spices and perfumes, that it might remain a long time fresh and uncorrupted. Heroes Every Child Should Know
When one of them died, his son, or his nearest relative, carefully washed the corpse in water impregnated with an astringent or aromatic substance, such as natron or some solution of fragrant gums, and then fumigated it with burning herbs and perfumes which were destined to overpower, at least temporarily, the odour of death. [ History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)
In general, the agreeable fumes of the "Aina" were created by one's own inhalations; but Donjalolo deeming the solace too dearly purchased by any exertion of the royal lungs, regaled himself through those of his attendants, whose lips were as moss-rose buds after a shower. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)
I'm not the only person who fumes with rage over the sheer length of time it takes to pay. Times, Sunday Times
(ALCYONARIA) has a sulphurous savour of its own, and the echini and b阠he-de-mer are also to be separately distinguished by their fumes. My Tropic Isle
Varnish remover fumes mixed with a lit candle and erupted in flames which covered her from the neck down. The Sun
Take a glass of wine, Sir Arthur, and drink down that bead-roll of unbaptized jargon, that would choke the devil -- why, that last fellow has the only intelligible name you have repeated -- they are all of the tribe of Macfungus -- mushroom monarchs every one of them; sprung up from the fumes of conceit, folly, and falsehood, fermenting in the brains of some mad Highland seannachie. The Antiquary — Volume 01
We stock a wide range of perfumes.
Stalactites sprouted from the roof, the exhaust pipe breathed out a pungent cloud of foundry fumes ... Strange Fiction in the Marketplace
A few years later, platforms were mandated to prevent pilot lights from igniting gasoline fumes.
A perpetual fire of fulminating balls would bang from under the feet of the faithful; odors of impure assafoetida would mingle with the fumes of the incense; and wicked drinking choruses would rise up along with the holy canticles, in hideous dissonance, reminding one of the old orgies under the reign of the The Paris Sketch Book
Some people emit negative fumes, while others vibrate positive energy. Stay close to the positive ones; otherwise you will be smoked to death. RVM
Grey-market perfumes and toiletries are now commonly sold by mail.
Hundreds of glass fragments were carefully excavated, together with pieces of oil lamps, drinking cups, and different kinds of unguentaria (small bottles for perfumes and aromatic oils). Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Roman Baths Report 5
The fumes of the fuel in their squashed space made it hard to breathe. Times, Sunday Times
The air is so black with diesel fumes and coal dust, I can barely see.
The gas comes mostly from diesel fumes and can cause respiratory illness and premature death. Times, Sunday Times
They give off thick black toxic fumes, which often prove to be more lethal than the flames themselves.
A bunch of abomination, called a cigar, reeked in the left-hand corner of the mouth of one, and in the right-hand corner of the mouth of the other -- an arrangement happily adapted for the escape of the noxious fumes up the chimney, without that unmerciful "funking" each other, which a less scientific disposition of the weed would have induced. Humorous Ghost Stories
Essential oils are defined as the extracts from plants and flowers that give off fragrance and are used in making perfumes, colognes, eau de parfum and eau de toilette. Hints From Heloise
The mild tartness of the thin liquid cut through the dust and diesel fumes.
Dust covers the entire city; the smell of diesel fumes is pervasive no matter where you go; there are ruins and debris everywhere you look; and the trees are all destroyed (either cut down for fuel or by the Soviets years earlier to thwart snipers who used them for cover). Khaled Hosseini - An interview with author

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