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Decaying vegetation may occasionally smoulder with the heat of its fermentation, but this rarely results in flame.

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 Meanings and Examples of FERMENT
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ferment
 n.  agitation; chemical phenomenon in which an organic molecule splits into simpler substances
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  Scarlett was not the only member of the household who reacted strangely and unwillingly to his presence, for he kept Aunt Pitty in a flutter and a ferment.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  "I never thought to live long enough to hear such disloyal words spoken of our Cause," went on Mrs. Merriwether, by this time in a ferment of righteous anger.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  When she took the paste out to bake it, she left smears of dough sticking to the sides of the measure, put the measure on the shelf behind the stove, and let this residue ferment.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IV
4  There was not much time for preparation, and the house was in a ferment till Amy was off.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY
5  Nobody knows how many rebellions besides political rebellions ferment in the masses of life which people earth.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  But it will be said, this hypothesis lays a ferment for frequent rebellion.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
7  All this must mean a time of intense ethical ferment, of religious heart-searching and intellectual unrest.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In X
8  They were activities which, beside those of a town, a village, or even a farm, would have appeared as the ferment of stagnation merely, a creeping of the flesh of somnolence.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 1 Tidings of the Comer
9  Their putrescence is evident, their stagnation is unhealthy, their fermentation infects people with fever, and etiolates them; their multiplication becomes a plague of Egypt.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST
10  Philosophical fermentation replied to democratic fermentation.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
11  The fermentation entered the boiling state.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
12  All this fermentation was public, one might almost say tranquil.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
13  Columns were thrown into the streets where there was fermentation, sweeping the large, sounding the small, right and left, now slowly and cautiously, now at full charge.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—PASSING GLEAMS
14  Decaying vegetation may occasionally smoulder with the heat of its fermentation, but this rarely results in flame.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In IX
15  Everything which had been hastily stifled was moving and fermenting.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
Example Sentence:
1  The whole country has been in a state of political ferment for some months.
2  Foods that ferment quickly in the stomach are excellent natural laxatives.
3  To serve the needs of bakers, manufacturers ferment the yeast to produce a more concentrated product.
4  With the breakup of the Soviet Union, much of Eastern Europe was in a state of ferment.
5  It provided services within research and manufacture of fermentation based pharmaceutical products.
6  Sugar is converted into alcohol through the process of fermentation.
7  A blend of emotions fermented inside her.
8  Red wine is fermented at a higher temperature than white.
9  An alcoholic beverage made from fermented honey and water.