How to Use effusion in a Sentence

effusion

noun
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  • The doctor told me that my baby had a pleural effusion, or a fluid in the lining of the lungs.
    — Katie Herchenroeder, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Jonathan Davis was placed on the injured list with right elbow effusion to create the space on the roster for Mitchell.
    — Curt Hogg, Journal Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2022
  • The Alps came through the clubhouse door to a mild effusion of hollers and hellos from the handful of patrons already ensconced.
    — Colin Barrett, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
  • The campuses of the West too often loosen up the politics of the young through such immoral effusions.
    — Douglas Murray, National Review, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Few saw in his Ukraine outbursts anything more than the effusions of a cable-news showman.
    — Simon Shuster/kiev, Time, 3 Oct. 2019
  • The only way to process such tortured effusion is to remember James Comey.
    — Author: Kathleen Parker, Alaska Dispatch News, 20 June 2017
  • Grattan was charmed by the soccer star’s effusion of emojis.
    — Tessa Watson, ELLE Decor, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The scan on the left showed Sharon’s torso in May 2001, a massive tumor impinging her left lung, the pleural effusion flooding her chest.
    — Danielle Jackson, Longreads, 20 June 2017
  • Meanwhile, at Pavlof, effusion of a small lava dome or flow seems to be continuing as well.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2013
  • This ebullience of this aubade-style effusion is entirely new.
    — Gregory Dowling, WSJ, 16 July 2021
  • Fifty years later, Younghusband’s effusions about the mountains were accompanied by a neat list of the highest peaks in the world, most of them in the Himalayas and surveyed from a distance.
    — Ipsita Chakravarty, Quartz India, 10 June 2019
  • The same goes for Frank Ntilikina (right foot effusion) and Davis Bertans (right knee effusion) who haven’t played this season.
    — Dallas News, 25 Oct. 2022
  • All players except Davis Bertans (right knee effusion) were active for the game, but Kidd elected to play just a 10-player rotation through the first three-and-a-half quarters.
    — Dallas News, 14 Oct. 2022
  • This was no slick Vegas headliner, with polished stage patter and fake effusions of love for the audience.
    — Richard Zoglin, Time, 23 July 2019
  • Maxi Kleber is listed as probable with a right knee effusion, but is expected to play.
    — Callie Caplan, Dallas News, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Sometimes actually seems to be quite often, as the path to the White House has become a blue streak of vulgarity, cuss words and four-letter effusions.
    — Author: Mark Z. Barabak, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Sep. 2019
  • The impact left Rand with six broken ribs, three displaced, pleural effusion and now pneumonia.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Davis Bertans, who has missed most of the preseason with a right knee effusion, and Frank Ntilikina, who did not travel with the team because of a right ankle effusion, are out.
    — Dallas News, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Low voltage on the extremity leads on an ECG can sometimes occur when there is a large amount of fluid in the sac surrounding the heart, called a pericardial effusion.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The current work reinterprets and recreates the youthful artistic visions and effusion.
    — Matthew Larking, CNN, 12 May 2017
  • It’s not a powerful effusion, like anger, fear, or joy, but a refocusing of attention away from something.
    — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Jan. 2022
  • The Puyehue-Cordon Caulle effusion rate is fairly low compared to some other volcanic eruptions.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2011
  • Near the end, an effusion of Puccinian warmth yields to yet more punchy percussion, then a fanfaring pastiche of the Handelian Baroque before the work’s grimly quiet conclusion.
    — New York Times, 24 Nov. 2021
  • The bleacher bums behind me began to emit guttural effusions, a sort of existential, yowling yodel.
    — Michael Powell, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2019
  • He was taken by ambulance to a hospital and diagnosed with an effusion, or fracture, according to the report.
    — Lisa Hammersly, Arkansas Online, 1 Dec. 2019
  • Beyond simply delighting the ear and intellect, his aim seemed to be to generate excitement, to yield to the music's effusion and keep listeners in a state of breathless engagement.
    — Zachary Lewis, cleveland.com, 11 May 2018
  • Shoppers will also notice an effusion of labradorite and diamonds throughout the collection.
    — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Nearly 30 years later, doctors found fluid between the layers of tissue lining his lungs, a condition known as a pleural effusion that can be caused by asbestos exposure.
    — Kathleen McGrory, ProPublica, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Will the weird, jagged, irregular effusions of language gradually be purged?
    — Christopher Soto, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The hot effusions are continually retouching the tropical landscape, a haven for native birds and endemic species such as a meat-eating caterpillar, a lava-loving cricket and the world's rarest goose.
    — Andrea Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2018

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