How to Use eruption in a Sentence

eruption

noun
  • No fatalities have yet been reported in the current eruption.
    Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 6 Dec. 2022
  • The news agency reported that the eruption was triggered by monsoon rains, which eroded and collapsed the volcano's lava dome.
    Maria Pasquini, Peoplemag, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The Jewish diaspora has been shaken by an eruption of hatred the likes of which has not occurred since the Holocaust.
    Ari Shavit, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Sunday’s eruption comes exactly a year after the same volcano erupted and left more than 40 people dead and villages blanketed in ash and mud.
    Sammy Westfall, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2022
  • Searing gas raced down the sides of the mountain, smothering entire villages and destroying a bridge that had just been rebuilt after a powerful eruption last year.
    Agoes Basoeki, ajc, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The pause was one of several diminuendos during this recent, multiday eruption.
    Robin George Andrews, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The Source of all the Magma With all these eruptions, volcanologists have been sampling lava across and between eruptions as well.
    Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2024
  • The latest eruption is the fifth on the peninsula since 2021.
    Catherine Duncan, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Jan. 2024
  • For those just seeking a glimpse of the eruption, the tensions can be hard to grasp.
    Simon Romero, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2022
  • An eruption of that scale would dwarf blasts like 1991's Pinatubo.
    Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 8 Oct. 2023
  • The couple was killed in a volcanic eruption in Japan in 1991.
    Daron James, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 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
  • One of the biggest eruptions of thick smoke from the fires this year is beginning to drift south.
    Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
  • Feelings about this spring’s eruption of brand flicks have been mixed.
    Zachary Siegel, New York Times, 11 Apr. 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
  • McGee left the stage for a moment, then heard an eruption of laughter from the audience.
    Maggie Duffy, Orlando Sentinel, 26 July 2024
  • 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
  • Despite that mismatch with the start of warming, the study did find a match between the eruptions and the later peak warmth during the MCO.
    Howard Lee, Ars Technica, 8 Sep. 2024
  • Pliny the Younger in letters described shaking ground around the time of Vesuvius’s eruption.
    Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 18 July 2024
  • 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
  • This comes after a solar X flare—an eruption of energy—peaked over the weekend, and led to an aurora-causing coronal mass ejection (or an explosion of solar material) that affected Earth earlier this week.
    Arianna Johnson, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024

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