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.
  — Ben Poston, latimes.com, 19 June 2019
• 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 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
• And while there could be critters on all sides of us to distract our attention, what brought me back was the design of the flume, which took unexpected turns that seemed to hide its drops from view.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024