They are capable of emittingthe most brilliant light, in favorable circumstances.
The lava was fissured and upheaved everywhere by earthquakes, hot underneath, and emitting a hot breath.
About seven feet back from the edge of the ledge, there was a fissure about eighteen inches wide, emitting heavy fumes of sulphurous acid gas.
The seaward view is over a great stretch of apparent table-land, spotted with craters, and split by cracks emitting smoke or steam.
A ledge, only three or four feet wide, hung over the lake, and between that and the comparative terra firma of the older lava, there was a fissure of unknown depth, emitting hot blasts of pernicious gases.
By night, however, it is more easily discerned, in consequence of its property of emitting light.
In Pholas the light is still more persistent, and it is found that when the dead body of this mollusk is placed in honey, it will retain for more than a year the power of emitting light when plunged in warm water.
In each one was a thorn preserved for use and with these he pinned them all together, scrambled out on the bank, emitting his startling cry at the sheep that obstructed his path.
He then held it so that the sun, falling into it, set fire to a bed of loose gems mingled without care for kind or value--a heap of glowing color emitting sparks.
Are thine devotedly, and ever thine; And thou wilt use them till thy brow shall wear A newer crown by high endeavor sealed With gems emitting brilliances divine.
Then came a scratching noise, the flash of a match, and the tiny wax light emitting a bluish flame threw up the pale, smooth face of Cousin Thompson, whose eyes were dilated with fear.
One was that of emitting bills of credit, or issuing a treasury currency.
These Medusae, as they are called, possess the power of emitting light similar to that of the fire-fly.
While emitting its prolonged sound the bird is so absorbed in its own performance that it is not easily alarmed, and will sometimes continue singing with a human listener standing within four or five yards of it.
For half an hour I heard the calls without paying much attention, absorbed in watching the quaint little songster close to me and his curious gestures when emitting his sustained reeling sounds.
On October 6 two new mouths opened in the Val del Bove, emitting lava which flowed towards the valley of Calanna, and fell over the Salto della Giumenta, a precipice nearly 200 feet deep.
For ten years past it has been emitting ashes and smoke.
To manifest itself by, or as if by, emitting sparks; to glisten; to flash.
Defn: A celebrated Egyptian statue near Thebes, said to have the property of emitting a harplike sound at sunrise.
A stream of burning vapor or gas, emitting light and heat; darting or streaming fire; a blaze; a fire.
Emitting copiously, as tears or words; weakly and unreservedly demonstrative in matters of affection; sentimental.
When isolated it is in the form of dark gray metallic scales, resembling plumbago, soft but brittle, and emitting a chlorinelike odor.
It has a burning taste, and gives off a vapor, which is a powerful irritant poison, violently attacking the eyes, and emitting a strong chlorinelike odor.
Defn: A low, oven-shaped mound, common in volcanic regions, and emitting smoke and vapors from its sides and summit.
Defn: A variety of barite emitting a fetid odor when rubbed or heated.
This experiment proved the vast difference between two equally invisible gases with regard to their power of emitting radiant heat.
Any one of these vapours discharged into the free atmosphere, in front of a body emitting obscure rays, intercepts more or less of the radiation.
When we see a platinum wire raised gradually to a white heat, and emitting in succession all the colours of the spectrum, we are simply conscious of a series of changes in the condition of our own eyes.
The dumb notes of the keyboard ought to be capable of emitting sounds by way of notice to the operator, in order to show when the rules have been broken.
It is less a musical modulation than a manner of forcing the voice and of emitting by the nose a sort of moaning in which all the inflections follow each other with rapidity.
I have kept several of them, but their over-fondness made them troublesome, as they were always in the way; and their so frequently emitting a disagreeable smell, rendered them quite disgusting.
As he shook he gave tone, emitting a most horrendous yell of pain and rage.
But when that road is infested with terrifying motor-cars and when it goes past two or three blast-emitting stone-quarries and a railway, the labour is spectacular in spots and arduous at all times.
And that club, belching forth flames and emitting tremendous roars, all of a sudden pierced Bhima's right arm and then fell to the ground.
Causing terror with his glowing red eyes and emitting fumes from his blazing lustre, he began to swell in magnitude in that region.
Producing a watch he pointed to the Roman numeral VII on its face and then, emitting a hissing sound from between his front teeth, he imparted to his hands a rapid circular motion, as though imitating the stirring of some mixture.
Tess was quite serious, painfully serious by this time; and she tried--ultimately and unexpectedly emitting a real round sound.
Peter Sherringham made the secret reflexion that he liked her better lugubrious, as the note of pertness was not totally absent from her mode of emitting these few words.
He turned down a narrow path, where, pipe in mouth, and emitting puffs of smoke, the old gentleman was busy with some strips of matting tying up the heavy blossoms of carnations to some neatly cut sticks.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "emitting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
