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A plume of intense heat surging north from North Africa, and already bringing exceptionally high temperatures to parts of Iberia and France, will reach the UK on Wednesday.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

Rebecca Papin, a French-American visiting her holiday home in the commune of Biscarrosse, near to the Cap Ferret peninsula, saw a large plume of smoke in the distance on Thursday.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

They propose that magma from a thermal-chemical plume rose through the plate, created the dike swarms, and then reacted with the surrounding mantle rock.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026

It featured a swirling plume of smoke, accompanying the story “The West’s Infernos Are Melting Our Sense of How Fire Works,” and the irony wasn’t lost on him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

He cranked up his automobile and sped off, sending a plume of dust to settle on Shady’s clean bar top.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

The whole film is hazy — literally — with plumes of mist rippling through soundstages so stripped of life they resemble the bones of a dream.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

A whistle sounds in the distance, and the ground rattles as the train comes into view, plumes of steam billowing out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

A number of residents from nearby villages and towns said they could see plumes of smoke and could hear sirens racing to the scene.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

Clement Boher, a 37-year-old resident, said he and his family had been on alert since he saw plumes of smoke rise about the forest on Sunday night.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

It cheered when the big searchlights atop the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building began sweeping the crowd, and when colorful plumes of water—“peacock feathers,” the Tribune called them—began erupting from the MacMonnies Fountain.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

A naming contest has been launched for the two eaglets born this month to proud and plumed parents Jackie and Shadow, the widely followed Big Bear bald eagle pair whose lives are streamed online.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

The King and Queen followed convention and were at the back of the procession dressed in white plumed hats and dark blue velvet robes, as were the other members of the order.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025

Black smoke plumed over a hill from a botanical gardens on the other side of the hill, he said, and within minutes their community was engulfed in tall orange flames.

From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2024

We were too far away, or were seated behind the choir, or had our view blocked by a guardsman in a plumed helmet.

From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2023

He saw one man on a black horse, waving a plumed hat: an officer.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

Stepping out of the truck, Avery looked up and saw flames and smoke pluming into the night sky.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2023

Elizabeth Leddy, 28, from Poole said: "The amount of smoke pluming out was like no heath fire I've seen before."

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2022

Crews arrived to find heavy fire and black smoke pluming from the single-level home.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 11, 2021

“I’m not very good,” he laughs, his breath pluming the air.

From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2020

Bearing down swiftly, dust pluming around them, the horses pounded in her direction.

From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper