1 The water in the tub fumed and sparkled faintly and was still.
2 Our chief comedian frowned and fumed ; our stage manager was in despair.
3 Despite the result, Spurs coach Gregg Popovich fumed about his team's play.
4 He fumed and stormed and was in danger of an apoplectic stroke.
5 He fumed but little; being of all white men most miraculously compassionate.
6 She'd stall him for the next twenty minutes at least, Kate fumed .
7 The actors quarrelled and fumed and all but fought over their grievances.
8 The knight fumed a good deal as he thought of neglected opportunities.
9 The obnoxious machines came to a standstill, and Bolt fumed and cursed.
10 This was exasperating, and Marius fumed secretly and swore at the delay.
11 Bessie fumed , and for a couple of hours the quarrel was unappeasable.
12 He neither fretted nor fumed at the time this travel was taking.
13 I thrashed him while he fumed and foamed, and cursed and swore.
14 How typical of that woman to state the obvious, he fumed inwardly.
15 Still the commander-in-chief hesitated and paltered, while Putnam fumed , but labored hard.
16 Lord Brentford had fussed and fumed , and had certainly made things worse.
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