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On Tuesday evening, footage emerged showing a huge plume of smoke engulfing an oil tanker off the coast of Sochi, along the Black Sea in southern Russia.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Beyond the exclusion zone, people watch an impressive two kilometer-high plume rise into the sky – but it rapidly grows larger, and any sense of relief is short-lived.

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

Cars and batteries and plastics and metals and other things were incinerated, and a toxic plume traveled for miles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

And just like a burp, the plume died off after it made some noise.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

As the rocket climbed above Earth carrying a Dragon spacecraft, sunlight illuminated its expanding exhaust plumes, creating an enormous glowing shape that resembled a jellyfish.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

Pasadena-based nonprofit Carbon Mapper, which partners with the state, can now check twice as often for climate-heating methane plumes, improving the emerging picture of this invisible gas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

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

Videos showing the moment of a huge explosion and the plumes of smoke that followed have been shared online.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

The whole meadow is littered with knocked-over tubes and blackened boxes, empty shells that are still venting plumes.

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day

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

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

In a real fairy tale, her tea kettle would turn into a carriage and those dogs would become plumed white horses.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 12, 2022

The appointments to the Order of the Garter were announced at New Year, but members are formally installed at an annual ceremony in June, with velvet robes and plumed caps worn in a colourful procession.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2022

She smelled the flowers and heard the neighing of the plumed horses of the funeral carriage.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

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

They trudged on the packed-dirt road, breath pluming in front of them as they went.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack