plume

The immense umbrella cloud that forms does not behave like a normal ash plume that simply drifts with the prevailing wind.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

Video from the airport showed the plane landing before disappearing from view, followed by a plume of black smoke.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

"There is no family that has not been affected," Zivic told AFP, as he watched a plume rise from a plant chimney in the nearby settlement of Plemetina.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

The combination of extreme heat, gusty winds and low humidity brings a “significant risk” of “large plume dominated fires with rapid fire spread and extreme fire behavior,” according to forecasters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

She’d seen the dark plume rising into the sky as they’d gotten close, had held out hope it was some other building, maybe...maybe...

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older

Video shared on social media showed a crashed plane with the Amazon logo on the tail engulfed in plumes of black smoke.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

While roaring fires and vast plumes of smoke proved spectacular, a more creeping disaster was also spreading: drought.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

Sure, the production has all the paraphernalia a major pop tour - big sets, plumes of smoke, inspired choreography - but there are long stretches where it's just Grande on stage with her band.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

One night, a nearby pile of burning garbage sent plumes of smoke into the air, making her gag at the smell, she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

High volcanic mountains capped with plumes of smoke and ash were feeding fire to the sky.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026

The service sees knights take part in a procession to the chapel dressed in green velvet robes and white plumed hats.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2023

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

Radioactive fallout plumed over the area but the public was never warned, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a publication founded in 1945 by nuclear physicists concerned about the dangers of atomic weapons.

From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2022

A long gown and a plumed hat brushing both sides of the narrow stairs.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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

As we’re now seeing again in other places, the skyline was pluming with smoke, and the National Guard drove in.

From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2020

Following the voice, I found my father standing in the street in a soggy sweater, breath pluming before him like muffler exhaust on a cold morning.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs