How to Use eruption in a Sentence

eruption

noun

• The latest eruption is the fifth on the peninsula since 2021.
  — Catherine Duncan, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Jan. 2024
• An eruption of that scale would dwarf blasts like 1991's Pinatubo.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 8 Oct. 2023
• With more minutes, the eruption could be coming in Game 6.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 10 May 2023
• The ring is known for volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and tsunamis.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Sep. 2023
• About 45 miles from the volcano, the eruption cut off a seafloor fiber-optic cable.
  — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023
• The primal force of the fire draws pilgrims to the lips of the craters, and has drawn Weston around the world in chase of that initial eruption.
  — Nina MacLaughlin, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
• The eruption sent lava fountains at the summit as high as 200 feet.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 8 June 2023
• The volcanic eruption is Iceland’s fifth in three years, and second in less than a month.
  — TIME, 15 Jan. 2024
• This is the third eruption in the area, broadly known as Fagradalsfjall volcano, in the past two years.
  — Naomi Schanen, Washington Post, 11 July 2023
• Boom This five-minute short is about birds who try to protect their eggs from a volcanic eruption.
  — Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Dec. 2023
• The cut also alerted scientists to the fact that the eruption had disrupted the seafloor, which isn’t easy to spot.
  — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023
• That was seen as a distant prospect until the recent eruption.
  — Hannah Allam, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023
• Live footage of the eruption can be viewed online via the USGS’ webcam.
  — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 7 June 2023
• The court was shown video and photographs taken in the moments before and during the eruption.
  — Rod McGuirk, USA TODAY, 14 July 2023
• The eruption began at 10:17 p.m. local time on Monday, the Met Office said.
  — Ragnhildur Sigurdardottir, Fortune Europe, 19 Dec. 2023
• The most recent eruption in the U.S. is occurring right now, said Klemetti.
  — Erica Lamberg, Fox News, 18 Nov. 2023
• The history of eruptions is considered when GeoAlaska sends work crews to the sites, Craig said.
  — Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Aug. 2023
• The intense eruption lasted a few days and stayed outside Grindavík.
  — Robin George Andrews, Quanta Magazine, 20 Feb. 2024
• The recent volcanic eruptions have brought the world’s attention back to Iceland.
  — David Nikel, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
• The city on the foothills of Mount Vesuvius was destroyed after a cataclysmic volcanic eruption in 79 A.D.
  — Nihi Masih, Anchorage Daily News, 28 June 2023
• The side-by-side pits were created by volcanic eruptions tens of thousands of years ago and bear resemblance to craters seen in Hawaii.
  — Kae Lani Palmisano, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
• In the mid-2000s, official Chinese fears of an eruption of anti-party protests did not seem so far-fetched.
  — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• Kīlauea is the youngest and most active volcano on the island, with several summit eruptions since 2020.
  — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 11 Sep. 2023
• Its last major eruption happened more than a thousand years ago.
  — Megan Janetsky, ajc, 24 May 2023
• Each of his slightest gestures — a tug of the sunglasses here, a pensive gaze into the crowd there — elicited eruptions of screams.
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 7 Apr. 2024
• Instead of the same pattern of inflation on the land surface, a new (and brief) eruption and repeat, this eruption north of the city has been going strong for days.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024
• With ice data as a blueprint, the team of researchers spent five years scouring medieval lunar eclipse records to pinpoint the details of the eruptions.
  — Carolyn Hagler, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023
• The eruptions could last for months, officials announced on Wednesday.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 14 June 2023
• There have been no disruptions to flights to and from Iceland as a result of the eruption, according to the Government of Iceland.
  — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Dec. 2023
• Iceland, which sits above a volcanic hot spot in the North Atlantic, averages one eruption every four to five years.
  — Marco Di Marco, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024