How to Use flume in a Sentence

flume

noun
  • The flume tank had two nozzles that each pushed a mild plume of water from front to back.
    — Danielle L. Dixson, Scientific American, 1 June 2017
  • For now, the flume is a one-of-a-kind experiment.
    — Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The city worked last week to widen a concrete flume that directs water through town.
    — Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post, 16 June 2019
  • The wood was sent down the 54-mile Sanger flume to get to a railroad.
    — Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Get soaked on the log flume or see a concert at Pirates World?
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Riders then board a log flume for a unique adventure down the bayou.
    — Leslie D. Rose, Parents, 3 July 2024
  • The flume was hoisted by helicopter and anchored to the canyon bedrock.
    — Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Mirages rose from boulders, a flume of dream attached to real rock.
    — Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
  • El Aserradero set the template as parks scrambled to build their own flume rides.
    — Arthur Levine, USA TODAY, 17 June 2019
  • The team set a flat surface of this foam in a flume that stretched 24 feet long and almost a foot across.
    — Kevin Heiden, National Geographic, 13 Mar. 2019
  • The new attraction is set to break three world records and features the first-ever mega drop on a log flume.
    — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026
  • Other measures to be taken include a new upstream fish lift and flume.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2021
  • But most log flumes forego storytelling and just stick to the ride experience.
    — Arthur Levine, USA TODAY, 17 June 2019
  • There are diving boards, flume slides and water playground features for your kids to enjoy.
    — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 May 2018
  • Guests on either side of the raft paddle as the guide calls out instructions and the craft bucks through the waves, flumes and drops.
    — Chris Santella, The Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2017
  • From there, researchers then fed three types of water through the flume to mimic the ocean’s constant movement.
    — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2025
  • The Krakatoa Aqua Coaster is a canoe that rides through a flume.
    — Vincent Crampton, OrlandoSentinel.com, 30 May 2017
  • In late spring and early summer, the snowmelt-swollen river is a wild thing, a nearly nonstop log flume of fun, icy rapids.
    — Christopher Solomon, Travel + Leisure, 20 Mar. 2022
  • Occasionally, a steelhead trout got flung down the flume and squished in the printing works.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2022
  • The suit also held position throughout the day’s flumes, slides, and rides at the waterpark.
    — Katherine Alex Beaven, Travel + Leisure, 31 Aug. 2023
  • There’s a kids flume, wiggle bridge and splasher, drop slide, concessions area and sand volleyball courts.
    — Annie Alleman, chicagotribune.com, 10 May 2018
  • Depending on the temperature at which the bottles were kept, the color of the flume of gas changed.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Earnings at the Magic Kingdom are dropping faster than a sinking log flume.
    — CBS News, 4 Aug. 2020
  • Splash Mountain will close for good on Tuesday, so the 34-year-old flume ride can be made over with a new theme.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2023
  • After all, this is a T-rex using semi-heavy machinery that shoots a flume of pearly white snow high into the air.
    — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 2 Feb. 2016
  • The new nine-minute long flume ride is set to tell the story of what happens after The Princess and the Frog film.
    — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 26 June 2020
  • Splash Mountain first opened as a log-flume ride at Disneyland in the late 1980s.
    — Washington Post, 25 June 2020
  • The flume will be able to melt ice in the winter, solving a problem SRP has dealt with when creeks and rivers take on ice.
    — Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Powerful water jets propel the inner tubes up flumes and around the park giving spectacular views of the ocean.
    — Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The boats will then climb the first hill before rotating backward and plummeting down the world's tallest reverse drop on a water ride or flume.
    — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026

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