VAPORIZE in a Sentence

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The brazier, placed in the fireplace itself, beside the nearly extinct brands, sent its vapors up the chimney, and gave out no odor.

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 Meanings and Examples of VAPORIZE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
vaporize
 v.  turn into vapor, steam, gas, or fog; decrease rapidly and disappear
Classic Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  "And but little time to do it in," added Heyward, glancing his eyes upwards, toward the bank of vapor that concealed the setting moon.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
2  Here and there, a red and fiery star struggled through the drifting vapor, furnishing a lurid gleam of brightness to the dull aspect of the heavens.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
3  The flag was sometimes eaten and lost in this mass of vapor, but more often it projected, sun-touched, resplendent.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
4  But he obstinately took roundabout ways, and presently he was where he could see long gray walls of vapor where lay battle lines.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
5  He thought that he was aware of every change in the thin, transparent vapor that floated idly in sheets.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
6  The white vapor of the kiln was passing from us as we went by, and as I had thought a prayer before, I thought a thanksgiving now.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIII
7  But the vapor of a limekiln would come between me and them, disordering them all, and it was through the vapor at last that I saw two men looking at me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LVII
8  Through the frosty vapor could be seen workmen in short sheepskins and soft felt boots crossing the rails of the curving line.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 17
9  Marius could hardly distinguish her through the luminous vapor which had suddenly spread before his eyes.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VIII—THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL
10  Marius is a fog, and he must have found a vapor.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES
11  The fire crackled, and the smoke ascended like the dull vapor from a volcano; but still no prisoner fell down, as they expected.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 98. The Bell and Bottle Tavern.
12  Uncle Henry was a short, pot-bellied, irascible old gentleman with a pink face, a shock of long silver hair and an utter lack of patience with feminine timidities and vaporings.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
13  Sometimes Scarlett found it hard to dissemble her feelings, for she still thought Aunt Pitty the silliest of old ladies and her vagueness and vaporings irritated her unendurably.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
14  I don't believe I could bear her vaporings three times a day and, moreover, I believe Uncle Peter would assassinate me before he would let me live under the sacred Hamilton roof.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
15  The brazier, placed in the fireplace itself, beside the nearly extinct brands, sent its vapors up the chimney, and gave out no odor.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE
Example Sentence:
1  "Zap!" went Super Mario's atomic ray gun as he tried to vaporize another deadly foe.
2  The byproduct of the engine's combustion process is almost exclusively water vapor, which comes out of an exhaust pipe.
3  In visible light water vapor is not a problem; as long as clouds don't form, it's transparent.
4  Water vapor is water in the form of a gas.
5  When nitric acid is poured on copper, a brown vapor gives off.
6  His brain was filled with vapors and dreams.
7  As the water levels declined and the vaporization increased, the radiation dose rate above the pool would increase.