DISSIPATE in a Sentence

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I was alone; none were near me to dissipate the gloom and relieve me from the sickening oppression of the most terrible reveries.

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 Meanings and Examples of DISSIPATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
dissipate
 v.  spend or expend wastefully; vanish by dispersion; drive away; disperse
Classic Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
1  But it is this gloom which appears to have taken so strong a hold of your mind that I wish to dissipate.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
2  I was alone; none were near me to dissipate the gloom and relieve me from the sickening oppression of the most terrible reveries.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
3  As my sickness quitted me, I was absorbed by a gloomy and black melancholy that nothing could dissipate.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
4  What it was she did not know but she listened desperately, her eyes on his brown face, hoping to hear words that would dissipate her fears.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
5  To dissipate in some trifling measure her abiding sense of the murkiness of human life she went to the "linhay" or lean-to shed, which formed the root-store of their dwelling and abutted on the fuelhouse.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure
6  For that matter, Pietukh might well have been ruined already, for hospitality can dissipate a fortune in three months as easily as it can in three years.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
7  A breath of air which made its way in through the open pane, helped to dissipate the smell of the charcoal and to conceal the presence of the brazier.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE
8  It seemed to him that these distant splendors, far from dissipating his night, rendered it more funereal and more black.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
9  If this letter seems to you of service in enlightening some minds and in dissipating some prejudices, you are at liberty to publish it, sir.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VI—THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES
10  In other bills he had a lot of other names and done other wonderful things, like finding water and gold with a "divining-rod," "dissipating witch spells," and so on.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX.
11  I foresaw," said Martin to Candide, "that your presents would soon be dissipated, and only make them the more miserable.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXX
12  All passions except those of the heart are dissipated by revery.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY
13  There exists beneath society, we insist upon this point, and there will exist, until that day when ignorance shall be dissipated, the great cavern of evil.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE LOWEST DEPTHS
14  He was calm and happy now beside Cosette; that which had, for a time, alarmed and troubled him had been dissipated; but for the last week or two, anxieties of another nature had come up.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER I—JEAN VALJEAN
15  Hardly had Jean Valjean reached the Rue de l'Homme Arme when his anxiety was lightened and by degrees dissipated.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER I—A DRINKER IS A BABBLER
Example Sentence:
1  He is a fine artist, but I fear he may dissipate his gifts if he keeps wasting his time playing games.
2  Her parents had started her on drum lessons at age ten to help dissipate some of her inexhaustible energy. But at fifteen, she fell into an emotional morass.
3  The wind quickly dissipated the clouds.
4  The volunteers' energy was dissipated by the enormous amounts of paperwork involved in the project.
5  The heat had to be dissipated by elaborate cooling systems.
6  The mist quickly dissipated as the sun rose.
7  The tension in the room had dissipated.
8  I have myself - I tell it you without parable - been a worldly, dissipated, restless man.
9  His neighbors denounced him as a wastrel who had dissipated his inheritance.
10  These dissipations make against your chance of success.
11  The heat gradually dissipates into the atmosphere.