How to Use effusion in a Sentence

effusion

noun

• Her poetic effusions became tiresome.
• The doctor told me that my baby had a pleural effusion, or a fluid in the lining of the lungs.
  — Katie Herchenroeder, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2023
• Jonathan Davis was placed on the injured list with right elbow effusion to create the space on the roster for Mitchell.
  — Curt Hogg, Journal Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2022
• Bertans could push for time as a 3-point shooting specialist, but he’s missed the last week with a right knee effusion.
  — Dallas News, 17 Oct. 2022
• The Alps came through the clubhouse door to a mild effusion of hollers and hellos from the handful of patrons already ensconced.
  — Colin Barrett, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
• The campuses of the West too often loosen up the politics of the young through such immoral effusions.
  — Douglas Murray, National Review, 30 Oct. 2017
• Few saw in his Ukraine outbursts anything more than the effusions of a cable-news showman.
  — Simon Shuster/kiev, Time, 3 Oct. 2019
• The only way to process such tortured effusion is to remember James Comey.
  — Author: Kathleen Parker, Alaska Dispatch News, 20 June 2017
• Grattan was charmed by the soccer star’s effusion of emojis.
  — Tessa Watson, ELLE Decor, 1 Aug. 2023
• The scan on the left showed Sharon’s torso in May 2001, a massive tumor impinging her left lung, the pleural effusion flooding her chest.
  — Danielle Jackson, Longreads, 20 June 2017
• Meanwhile, at Pavlof, effusion of a small lava dome or flow seems to be continuing as well.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2013
• This ebullience of this aubade-style effusion is entirely new.
  — Gregory Dowling, WSJ, 16 July 2021
• Fifty years later, Younghusband’s effusions about the mountains were accompanied by a neat list of the highest peaks in the world, most of them in the Himalayas and surveyed from a distance.
  — Ipsita Chakravarty, Quartz India, 10 June 2019
• The same goes for Frank Ntilikina (right foot effusion) and Davis Bertans (right knee effusion) who haven’t played this season.
  — Dallas News, 25 Oct. 2022
• All players except Davis Bertans (right knee effusion) were active for the game, but Kidd elected to play just a 10-player rotation through the first three-and-a-half quarters.
  — Dallas News, 14 Oct. 2022
• This was no slick Vegas headliner, with polished stage patter and fake effusions of love for the audience.
  — Richard Zoglin, Time, 23 July 2019
• Maxi Kleber is listed as probable with a right knee effusion, but is expected to play.
  — Callie Caplan, Dallas News, 22 Dec. 2020
• Sometimes actually seems to be quite often, as the path to the White House has become a blue streak of vulgarity, cuss words and four-letter effusions.
  — Author: Mark Z. Barabak, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Sep. 2019
• The impact left Rand with six broken ribs, three displaced, pleural effusion and now pneumonia.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2017
• Davis Bertans, who has missed most of the preseason with a right knee effusion, and Frank Ntilikina, who did not travel with the team because of a right ankle effusion, are out.
  — Dallas News, 18 Oct. 2022
• Low voltage on the extremity leads on an ECG can sometimes occur when there is a large amount of fluid in the sac surrounding the heart, called a pericardial effusion.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
• The current work reinterprets and recreates the youthful artistic visions and effusion.
  — Matthew Larking, CNN, 12 May 2017
• It’s not a powerful effusion, like anger, fear, or joy, but a refocusing of attention away from something.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Jan. 2022
• The Puyehue-Cordon Caulle effusion rate is fairly low compared to some other volcanic eruptions.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2011
• Near the end, an effusion of Puccinian warmth yields to yet more punchy percussion, then a fanfaring pastiche of the Handelian Baroque before the work’s grimly quiet conclusion.
  — New York Times, 24 Nov. 2021
• The bleacher bums behind me began to emit guttural effusions, a sort of existential, yowling yodel.
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2019
• He was taken by ambulance to a hospital and diagnosed with an effusion, or fracture, according to the report.
  — Lisa Hammersly, Arkansas Online, 1 Dec. 2019
• Beyond simply delighting the ear and intellect, his aim seemed to be to generate excitement, to yield to the music's effusion and keep listeners in a state of breathless engagement.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland.com, 11 May 2018
• Shoppers will also notice an effusion of labradorite and diamonds throughout the collection.
  — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Sep. 2021
• Nearly 30 years later, doctors found fluid between the layers of tissue lining his lungs, a condition known as a pleural effusion that can be caused by asbestos exposure.
  — Kathleen McGrory, ProPublica, 27 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024