fume
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But if you’re honest, you also loved watching the guy dumb enough to buy it fume over the futility of his impulses.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
"It's one thing to look at chemistry and a set of materials at the single cell level in a fume hood," said Bailey.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
In that incident, an Air Canada jet ran into an emergency vehicle on the runway that was racing to deal with a potential fume event on a United Airlines flight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
Angel now looks like Italy’s PM and parishioners fume.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 3, 2026
And for five hundred years, Glerk continued to fume.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
I grew ill one night just from the fumes of grilling meat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
Officials struggled to board the hull since operations began on Wednesday because of the toxic fumes and heat.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
“These trucks don’t have as much rattle, fumes, exhaust, things of that nature.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Josefa Ippolito-Shepherd, a senior who works as a public-health scientist, called a plumber when she started feeling sick from fumes in her Washington, D.C., home—a smell she described as “like feces.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Worst of all, the air was full of fumes; breathing was painful and difficult, and a dizziness came on them, so that they staggered and often fell.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
"If you're not making the tips, what good is the tax credit?" he fumed.
From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026
Chandrasekaran’s predecessor, Cyrus Mistry, publicly fumed that some Tata Sons board directors would hold up board meetings to consult with Ratan Tata.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
As some residents fumed about the restrictions, they asked why managers of Las Virgenes weren’t taking a hard look at desalination.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
Former England striker Gary Lineker wrote on X that it "might be the worst VAR decision I've seen... extraordinary given the significance" and McInnes fumed at the call afterwards.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
“Stannis will be paying for them,” Salladhor Saan had fumed.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
"Joe Root will be absolutely fuming with this," said Vaughan.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
And he sure did, fuming at her publicly and privately for several days in a row.
From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2026
As we drove home, we were both fuming.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
Judges accustomed to having government lawyers comply with their orders have been left fuming.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2026
When we came out of the sunnily lit interior of the Ladies' Day offices, the streets were gray and fuming with rain.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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