VANISH in a Sentence

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The three women had profited by the respite of the night to vanish definitely; which allowed the insurgents to breathe more freely.

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 Meanings and Examples of VANISH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
vanish
 v.  disappear; pass out of sight, especially quickly; die out
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  At six francs the shot, that comes to nine hundred thousand francs a day, three hundred millions a year, which vanish in smoke.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
2  This gesture, and an inspection of the stranger's costume and baggage, which the Thenardier passed in review with one glance, caused the amiable grimace to vanish, and the gruff mien to reappear.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
3  The grandfather caused Jean Valjean to vanish.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT
4  In ordinary times, in order to dissolve an anachronism and to cause it to vanish, one has only to make it spell out the date.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST
5  Thenardier was panting on his wall like the shipwrecked sufferers of the Meduse on their raft when they beheld the vessel which had appeared in sight vanish on the horizon.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT
6  Gratitude, duty, matters essential and important to be remembered, vanish.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW
7  Now, the law of progress is, that monsters shall disappear before the angels, and that Fatality shall vanish before Fraternity.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VIII—MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A C...
8  The three women had profited by the respite of the night to vanish definitely; which allowed the insurgents to breathe more freely.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NO...
9  In the obliteration of things which disappear, in the watching of things which vanish, it recognizes all.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER
10  She would vanish for hours on end, and then reappear at meal-times, or in the evening after work was over, as though nothing had happened.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
11  Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
12  Any instant he might dash out the light and vanish in the darkness.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
13  It will vanish, pass into future Time, and disappear.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In I
14  As I stood agape, I saw a little red spark go drifting across a gap of starlight between the branches, and vanish.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In IX
15  For this purpose I will preserve my life; to execute this dear revenge will I again behold the sun and tread the green herbage of earth, which otherwise should vanish from my eyes forever.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
Example Sentence:
1  There is nothing that the U.S. government can do to make our economic pain vanish overnight.
2  But the old ways do not vanish overnight, so the traditional dance has a stronger pull on their hearts.
3  My keys were here a minute ago but now they've vanished.
4  The child vanished while on her way home from school.
5  She vanished nine months ago while on a mercy mission to West Africa.
6  They vanished into the haze near the horizon.
7  In the past two years, one-party rule has vanished from Eastern Europe.
8  My glasses seem to have vanished.
9  I turned round and she had simply vanished.
10  Everything seemed to have changed since her swim in the pool, and the great hall, with the glass table and the little door, had vanished completely.
11  A certain Amy Lawrence vanished out of his heart and left not even a memory of her behind.
12  It disappeared in his glove; and, with one hasty nod and "good-afternoon," he vanished.
13  In the village a researcher said that the Siraya tribe is almost vanished; now everything is buried in the mud.
14  They expressed worry about the district's current budget crisis and its vanishing middle-class work force.
15  Many of the ranchers themselves see all this tourism as a cheeky attempt to commercialise a real and vanishing culture.