Example Sentences

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He spent years digging and drilling but never found the meteorite because it had vaporized on impact.

From National Geographic • Dec. 27, 2015

Meanwhile, governors across Russia began to act on their own to replace the central government that had vaporized three weeks earlier.

From Time Magazine Archive

By the time he’d been in Da Nang a few months, Oshiro’s feeling of invincibility had vaporized.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge

Later he learned that the post office in these latitudes was not as reliable as that of far-off England, and that all his telegrams had vaporized en route.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

But he had shot me one of his smoldering Baba looks, and the words had vaporized on my tongue.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini