How to Use vapor in a Sentence

vapor

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  • As the plant vapor scatters blue light from the sky, the fog often takes on a blue hue.
    — Susan Glaser, cleveland, 22 Sep. 2022
  • This will cool its payload of vapor and kick off weeks and waves of rain and snow.
    — New York Times, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The baker hits the button, floods the oven-deck with a gash of vapor—for how many seconds?
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The shoes are available in black/gray, gray/pink, navy, and vapor—and come in women's sizes 5 to 12.
    — Lindsay Modglin, Verywell Health, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Remove it, and these vapors become part of the spirit, hence, the name Heavy Vapours.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 31 July 2023
  • Half a minute later, the server rushes the vessel to the table and lifts off the dome, swirling the vapors.
    — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The air was so chilly that vapor rose from the waters of Ohio River and Lake Michigan.
    — Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2022
  • The fog is caused in part by vapor emitted by the trees, bushes and other plants.
    — Susan Glaser, cleveland, 22 Sep. 2022
  • These use a wick to absorb water, then a fan to blow vapor into the air.
    — Brittany Vanderbill, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Their furious kicks churned the water and left white vapor trails in the sky-blue pool.
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Mar. 2022
  • How in the world does my $40 machine make vapor of water so fast?
    — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 5 Jan. 2022
  • At the end, the only byproduct is more clean vapor, once the hydrogen is used.
    — Rachel Ingram, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
  • The shaft was no longer ventilated, and gusts of hot vapor blew up from the tunnels.
    — Kimon De Greef, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The devices filled the train car with vapor as passengers covered their faces and fought to breathe.
    — Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2022
  • In class, Jeong began to smell not of Marlboros, but of mango vapor.
    — Wired, 12 July 2022
  • First downs — a total of nine of them — were little more than vapor for the visitors here.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Keep an eye out for the moisture vapor transfer rate (MVTR), which some brands disclose.
    — Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Less forest means less recycled rain, less vapor to cool the air, less of a canopy to shield against sunlight.
    — Alex Cuadros, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2023
  • The fuel spill, since stopped, was confirmed as the source of the vapor problem in the city's sanitary sewer system.
    — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The boom was a result of an ignition of fuel vapor within one of the ship’s boiler stacks, Boyd said.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 20 Nov. 2022
  • This could allow fuel, or fuel vapor, to leak over hot parts of the vehicle and start a fire.
    — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Firefighters sprayed water over the tank to dissipate the vapor until the leak was stopped.
    — Megan Jones, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2022
  • Does the scent of a lit cigarette evoke earthy pungence or sickly vapor?
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2021
  • But an emission of helium vapor from hot springs isn’t valuable in itself; the gas has to be pooled in the ground to be usable.
    — William Ralston, Wired, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Its vapor is lighter than air and has the same pungent odor as household ammonia.
    — CBS News, 3 Sep. 2022
  • The exposure to the wasabi vapors even increased the sample’s tensile strength by 26 percent.
    — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Clare and Lopez arrived along with other first responders to find a white cloud of vapor seeping out of the building and drifting across the desert.
    — David Paredes, NBC News, 7 Feb. 2023
  • She was exhausted from graffiti tagging the past few nights, and the spray-paint vapor had given her a slight cough.
    — Danielle Bacher, Billboard, 10 Mar. 2022
  • It is transmitted by breathing in a mist or vapor — small droplets of water in the air — that contains the bacteria.
    — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Nov. 2021
  • All four wore long coats and breathed ghosts of visible vapor into the cold February morning.
    — CBS News, 17 Mar. 2024

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