Clint Howard

People don't realize that doing a horror movie is hard work. You're out there all day screaming your lungs out, breathing in toxic make-up fumes, rolling around in the dirt, getting your eyebrows burned off - it's not like doing a sitcom.

American Actor

Darren Aronofsky

These wrestlers aren't organized. They have no union, no pension and no insurance. You meet wrestler after wrestler who sold out Madison Square Garden ten years ago, basically running on fumes today. There's a lot of drama there.

American Director

Michael Greger

The fumes produced by frying bacon contain carcinogens called nitrosamines. Though all meat may release potentially carcinogenic fumes, processed meat such as bacon may be the worst.

American Author

Marcia Cross

I like bringing the girls on set, but if I can't do that then the next day I feel I have to be uber-mum to make up for it. Then I'm exhausted and feel like I'm running in fumes.

American Actress

Kage Baker

People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business.

American Writer

Richard Cohen

Trump critics such as myself have been accused of living in a bubble. On the contrary, it is Trump's supporters in the 1 percent who breathed their own fumes.

American Journalist

Alice Hamilton

There can be no intelligent control of the lead danger in industry unless it is based on the principle of keeping the air clear from dust and fumes.

American Scientist

Robert Snodgrass

It really hurt me when there was this perception that I didn't want to play for Scotland. I was fuming, absolutely gutted.

Scottish Footballer

Chuck Pagano

If you're running on fumes, you get to a point of diminishing results. Get some rest.

American Coach

William Shakespeare

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

English Playwright

When 'fume' describes smoke or gas, it often implies something harmful or unpleasant.

Negative Connotation

Often used in discussions about pollution or environmental issues.

Environmental Context

The word can create a strong image of visible vapors escaping from a source.

Visual Imagery

Used to describe someone who is not just angry, but intensely so.

Emotional Intensity

Can imply physical reactions like red face or heavy breathing due to anger.

Physical Reaction

Imagery of smoke or vapor is used metaphorically to express the steamy temper.

Metaphorical Imagery

The noun form 'a fume' as anger is more figurative than literal.

Figurative Usage

Can suggest a temporary, though intense, state of emotion.

Brief Anger

Using 'a fume' to describe anger is more informal and casual.

Informal

As a verb, 'fume' implies that the smoke or vapor could be a health risk.

Health Hazard

Inanimate objects like cars or factories are often subjects when 'fume' is a verb.

Action of Objects

 so the plants they work with are in countries with little to no worker protection laws. As a result, many laborers earn below the living wage, and are exposed to harmful chemicals, like toxic glue fumes. When manufacturing is complete, the shoes are packaged and transported to stores around the globe.

The wildly complex...

 but most kitchens are ventilated well enough to dissipate the fumes. People used to also think that accidentally consuming PTFE that flaked off a scratched pan was bad for you, but the current consensus is that it's harmless. Because PTFE doesn't interact with other chemicals very well,

Why doesn’t anything...

 This is an early stage of the technology. We advanced the technology and created this into this version that would capture pollution from static sources of pollution, like a diesel generator. If you see, all the fumes disappear as soon as you turn this machine on.

Ink made of air...

 and type in the coordinates of your final destination. A 15-parsec jump leaves you running on fumes, but ready to dock with the precursor space station. Time to put this alien tech to work and make life better for everyone in the galaxy.

Can you solve the dark...

 it's the exhaust and the gas fumes from the bus it was like someone you know cracked open the window and you know I had that little bit of hope that I was helping my mother to cook dinner because I couldn't stay away from the kitchen

This Is What It's Like...

 poisoned by the dye and in the glass making industry the kids are held in debt bondage that was actually incurred by their parents they work over these gas burners in intense heat and fumes with no ventilation no protective gear

Jodi Cobb: Human Bondage...

 match to light your kerosene lantern you are burning jet fuel and you're struggling to see from the dim light of that lantern as you cough from the toxic fumes besides contributing to the millions of deaths each year caused by

Ending energy poverty...

 the biggest betrayal you could have in that-- in that business. I was just seething. I was fuming inside. I just wanted to grab hold of him. But the future wasn't in my hands. They give, you know, life sentences,

Surviving Prison in...

 the fumes choking our cities, the greenhouse gases going up in the atmosphere and overheating our planet. None of that is normal, nor is air pollution, which can shorten life expectancy by up to 10 years,

How cities are detoxing...

 until it dies he could easily lose his life in this attempt to kill his leg he could suffocate from the chemical fumes

Fume

Smoke or gas that smells bad or is dangerous to breathe in.

Often appears as...

To be very angry.

Often appears as...

Usage tips

A state of anger.

Often appears as...

Usage tips

To emit gas, smoke, or vapor that is not healthy to breathe in.

Often appears as...

Negative Connotation

Environmental Context

Visual Imagery

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