was evaporating
- past progressive of evaporate.
Example Sentences
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This suggests that organics and sulfate minerals were concentrated as the lake that once filled Jezero was evaporating, Sharma said.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 19, 2022
While they were gone, water was evaporating from the P traps under all their fixtures and from their toilet bowls.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2022
A report from the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensics Lab similarly found that QAnon rhetoric was "evaporating from the mainstream internet."
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2021
After 10 costly years of deployment in Vietnam the public appetite for war was evaporating and President Richard Nixon was beginning to withdraw troops.
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2013
My brother was evaporating before my eyes, and I had to find a way of stopping this dreadful abduction.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
