Definition: 1. Gases ejected from an engine as waste products.
Use 'fumes' in a sentence:
1. Many household products give off noxious fumes.
2. A fireman was overcome by smoke and fumes.
3. Researchers believe their lungs were seared by the toxic fumes, but orca carcasses usually sink, so no autopsy was possible.
4. The filtration system provides the crew with clean air free from fumes.
5. The odour may be horribly from stink bombs and sewage, but new research suggests the foul fumes might not be all bad.
6. He breathed out wine fumes.
7. If you smell gas fumes or burning, take the car to your mechanic.
8. He then fumes into the kitchen.
9. He stumbled through smoke and fumes to pull her to safety.
10. John Doe died in his bath, asphyxiated by the fumes from a gas water-heater.
11. The fire, the toxic fumes-forget it!
12. Just as on smoking, voices now come from many quarters insisting that the science about global warming is incomplete, that it's OK to keep pouring fumes into the air until we know for sure.
13. These days we can't help inhaling car exhaust fumes.
14. Study on Diffusion of Blasting Fumes and Ventilation Technique during Construction of Underground Tunnel.
15. They have been protesting about fumes from a chlorine factory.
16. Most of the victims were stifled by the fumes.
17. The couple were suffocated by fumes from a faulty gas fire.
18. Exhaust fumes from cars are poisoning the air of our cities.
19. Employees were taken to the hospital yesterday after being poisoned by fumes.
20. The air in the coach was thick with tobacco fumes.
21. Burning sulphur creates poisonous fumes.
22. It whips and mixes the fresh air and crankcase fumes as it rotates.
23. Beware of the specious charms of error and the intoxicating fumes of pride.
24. When a petrol station burns down, you don't just want to know who dropped the cigarette; you want to know why all the combustible fumes escaped.
25. He stumbled through smoke and fumes given off from her burning sofa to pull her to safety.
26. The air is so black with diesel fumes and coal dust, I can barely see.
27. The diesel fumes made him dizzy.
28. Local residents needed hospital treatment after inhaling fumes from the fire.
29. Our cars pump out thousands of tonnes of poisonous fumes every year.
30. Employees were taken to hospital yesterday after being poisoned by fumes.
31. If you smell something unusual (gas fumes or burning, for instance), take the car to your mechanic.
32. Dense smoke swirled and billowed, its rank fumes choking her.
33. You must wear goggles and a mask that will protect you against the fumes.
34. Clouds of toxic fumes escaped in a huge chemical factory blaze.
35. His illness is a result of breathing in paint fumes over many years.
36. He came up close, breathing alcohol fumes all over me.
37. The city's streets are filthy and choked with exhaust fumes.
38. The exhaust fumes are choking me.
39. The health of our children is being endangered by exhaust fumes.
40. Instead of exhaust fumes, the fuel-cell car produces soap and water.
41. The fumes made them woozy.
42. She almost choked to death in the thick fumes.
