How to Use plenum in a Sentence

plenum

noun
Definition of plenumnext
  • Even worse, the tank leak into the plenum isn't the only one.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 29 Nov. 2018
  • This is the remains of a bat, found in a furnace return plenum.
    — Reuben Saltzman, Star Tribune, 27 Oct. 2020
  • But the plenum has yet to be scheduled and may be delayed until next year.
    — Joy Dong, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The committee met for its fourth plenum in Beijing this week.
    — Ben Westcott, CNN, 1 Nov. 2019
  • The party plenum is likely to see a strong criticism against the United States and South Korea.
    — Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2019
  • At a plenum of North Korea’s Workers’ Party planned in the next few days, he is expected to describe the path in more detail.
    — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Consular officials sent out requests to CSSAs around the country to hold events related to the plenum.
    — chicagotribune.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Yet no sooner had the plenum closed and the party released its initial communiqué than observers dismissed the meeting as a bust.
    — Evan A. Feigenbaum, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2013
  • As if the drama in the Knesset and the fire on the streets weren’t enough, Netanyahu actually arrived at the Knesset plenum directly from a cardiac care unit.
    — Jo-Ann Mort, The New Republic, 26 July 2023
  • Officials asked some groups to organize study sessions to discuss the party pronouncements coming out of the plenum.
    — chicagotribune.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Prime Minister Hani Mulki addressed the plenum before the vote, saying the government backs repeal.
    — Alice Su, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Aug. 2017
  • It can be coaxed into sounding pretty good, thanks to Power mode and a carbon plenum gulping air into the engine, but for the majority of the time the Polestar 1 is an iron fist wrapped in a velvet glove.
    — Alistair Charlton, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
  • These could come at next month’s full gathering, or plenum, of the central committee of China’s Communist Party.
    — WSJ, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Instead, there's a water jacket surrounding the plenum chamber.
    — Don Sherman, Car and Driver, 1 May 2023
  • An air plenum is a part used in heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems.
    — Dallas News, 20 July 2022
  • Some legislators supportive of the law took pictures of the plenum during the vote while some spectators in visitors’ seats raised black cloth in apparent protest.
    — Orange County Register, 6 Feb. 2017
  • Inside the plenum, as debate began, some opposition lawmakers stood and wrapped themselves in Israeli flags in protest.
    — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Pressure sensors first indicate that there is fuel leaking into MarCO-B’s plenum, a pressurized chamber that holds the gas before valves route it through the thrusters.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 29 Nov. 2018
  • That’s because the engine wears a plastic cover that looks like a crinkle-finish intake plenum, so that is what is actually visible from outside the car.
    — Dan Carney, Popular Science, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Ahead of this week’s plenum, Chinese state media propaganda extolling Xi’s virtues went into overdrive.
    — Christian Shepherd, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2021
  • But a Communist Party plenum in North Korea last week focused on economic issues rather than new military threats.
    — David Ignatius, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
  • This is why the protests and the subsequent citizen plenums have eschewed ethnic appeals or demands, to the confusion of many international observers.
    — Milada Vachudova, Foreign Affairs, 24 Feb. 2014
  • The Communist Party's plenum meetings are one of the country's main forums for major changes of party policy and have previously changed the course of Chinese history.
    — Ben Westcott, CNN, 1 Nov. 2019
  • The air plenum was removed from the freeway about an hour later but obstructed an exit lane as it was being lifted onto a truck, Texas Department of Transportation traffic cameras showed.
    — Dallas News, 20 July 2022
  • Air is picked up by a four-inch-diameter duct just above the front air dam, flows unimpeded to the carburetor, where fuel is added, and then turns through 90 degrees in the plenum to enter the turbo compressor in a horizontal stream.
    — Don Sherman, Car and Driver, 1 May 2023
  • The plenum will lay the ground for National People’s Congress meetings that start March 5, where the president, premier and other top cabinet figures will be formally appointed to new terms.
    — Bloomberg.com, 22 Feb. 2018
  • North Korea’s Workers’ Party will hold a plenum later this month to review this year’s political and economic achievements and decide on plans for next year, according to state media.
    — Dasl Yoon, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Ahead of the plenum, there has been a fresh wave of propaganda stressing Xi’s direct responsibility for recent national achievements.
    — Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2021
  • The intake and exhaust plumbing has been smoothed out to improve airflow, and a plastic intake manifold replaces the former aluminum plenum equipped on manuals and features larger ports that feed a revised valvetrain.
    — David Beard, Car and Driver, 17 Aug. 2021
  • And the historic resolution adopted at the party's plenum this week has anointed him with the legitimacy as the only leader supposedly capable of steering China to achieve that ambition.
    — Nectar Gan and Steve George, CNN, 12 Nov. 2021

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