How to Use flume in a Sentence

flume

noun

• Some logs are floated as much as five miles in the flumes.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 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 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
• 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
• The Krakatoa Aqua Coaster is a canoe that rides through a flume.
  — Vincent Crampton, OrlandoSentinel.com, 30 May 2017
• 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
• The city worked last week to widen a concrete flume that directs water through town.
  — Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post, 16 June 2019
• Splash Mountain first opened as a log-flume ride at Disneyland in the late 1980s.
  — Washington Post, 25 June 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
• El Aserradero set the template as parks scrambled to build their own flume rides.
  — Arthur Levine, USA TODAY, 17 June 2019
• Splash Mountain, the log flume thrill ride themed around the dated and racist 1946 film, will close next month for a remodel.
  — Vanessa Franko, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
• Eleven rotates, of our tiniest days, the palaces sway and the huge collapse of the furnace, the arcane flume, the water tight doors icumen to the stoop of a sea.
  — Verity Spott Anne Boyer, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2023
• 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
• Sheep rancher Robert Allison began growing fruit trees in the area in the late 1800s and his son, Joseph, built a water flume to the area.
  — Karen Pearlman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 July 2018
• The suit also held position throughout the day’s flumes, slides, and rides at the waterpark.
  — Katherine Alex Beaven, Travel + Leisure, 31 Aug. 2023
• 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
• Mirages rose from boulders, a flume of dream attached to real rock.
  — Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
• The park removed its Log Jammer flume ride at the end of 2017, and many are hoping a new roller coaster may be in the works for that property.
  — Susan Glaser, cleveland.com, 12 Feb. 2018
• Occasionally, a steelhead trout got flung down the flume and squished in the printing works.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2022
• Last month, the Magic Kingdom ride had another mishap when one of the flume logs started to sink and take on water.
  — Ally Mauch, PEOPLE.com, 15 Sep. 2020
• Race your family on manta rays down these four fast flumes.
  — Vincent Crampton, OrlandoSentinel.com, 30 May 2017
• But most log flumes forego storytelling and just stick to the ride experience.
  — Arthur Levine, USA TODAY, 17 June 2019
• To your left is a log flume ride called Mill Race, overshadowed by the iconic wooden coaster, Blue Streak.
  — John Pana, cleveland, 1 July 2021
• The park announced Wednesday that the attraction will close on May 31, giving park-goers just over a month to get in their last log flume ride.
  — Simrin Singh, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2023
• After Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge opened, the average wait time for the flume ride dropped to just under 21 minutes.
  — Dallas News, 25 June 2019
• After Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge opened, the average wait time for the flume ride dropped to just under 21 minutes.
  — Ben Poston, latimes.com, 19 June 2019
• 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
• Earnings at the Magic Kingdom are dropping faster than a sinking log flume.
  — CBS News, 4 Aug. 2020
• In addition to a mini golf course and outdoor go-karting, visitors can enjoy thrills on the Desert Storm coaster or get soaked on the Splashdown log flume ride.
  — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 21 June 2024
• To re-create a part of the red planet’s landscape in a lab, Roelofs built a flume in a special environmental chamber that simulated the atmospheric pressure of Mars.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 4 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Aug 2024