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eruption - use in sentences
Converse of object
- predict: This site asks the question: Can we predict volcanic eruptions?
- accompany: MUD FLOWS ( lahars ) Frequently accompany volcanic eruptions and can be lethal.
- cause: Let your party guests take turns adding a bit of solution to the can to cause further eruptions.
Converse of subject
- bury: Many of our passengers went to visit the excavations at these famous towns buried by the eruption of Mount Etna in 79 AD.
- destroy: Our house was destroyed by the volcanic eruption of 21 September 1997.
Adjective modifier
- volcanic: Only certain types of volcanic eruption will have an effect upon the climate.
- eczematous: Genner V and Bonnevie P ( 1938 ) Eczematous eruptions produced by leaves of trees and bushes.
- Minoan: The explosive activity last culminated with the Minoan eruption at ca.
- cataclysmic: This cataclysmic eruption may have been triggered by a menacing flyby, perhaps of a planet in a long period orbit around our sun.
- explosive: A more violent explosive eruption can happen in near future.
- vesicular: A universal papular and vesicular eruption appeared in a man a few hours after he smoked Indian hemp ( Beliaev 1964 ).
Modifies a noun
- column: Observations from an aircraft on October 11 showed that the height of the eruption column had decreased markedly.
Noun used with modifier
- volcano: This monumental work is the best study ever made of a submarine volcano eruption of the type to which Santorin belongs.
- fissure: He has also worked recently in southern Iceland on 934 AD Eldgja fissure eruption that produced the largest lava flow in historic times.
- skin: Stock forced to graze on heavily infested pastures may suffer skin eruptions about the mouth.
- ash: Part of the volcano is formed by gentle lava flows and part by explosive ash eruptions.
- tooth: Finally, no evidence was found to suggest any delay in permanent tooth eruption patterns of the F subjects.
Preposition: of
- volcano: On the 8th of May, 1997 there again occured a short-lived eruption of the volcano.
- tooth: Late eruption of teeth - proper teeth can appear later than normal.
- violence: That said, the theme, drawn out as it is, is obscene enough to justify a climatic eruption of violence.
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