Example Sentences

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Because her financial reserves have vaporized this year, she plans to start moonlighting in a men’s clothing shop just to keep making ends meet.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2022

“So many things have vaporized in my life,” he told the Times in 1995, “that I ask, ‘What am I alive for?’

From Washington Post • Nov. 2, 2021

He notes, however, that because the rift zone was already hot, any rain that did trickle in might have vaporized before it could exert much pressure on the system.

From Scientific American • Apr. 22, 2020

The impoverished unnamed hero of “Above and Below” is an academic whose faith in words and themes have vaporized along with her money and home.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2018

It should have vaporized its target, but-the dark cloud only staggered backward.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan