How to Use vaporize in a Sentence

vaporize

verb
Definition of vaporizenext
Synonyms for vaporizenext
  • Heat is used to vaporize the liquid.
  • Pressure causes the chemical to vaporize.
  • But that idea vaporizes in the wake of a deus ex machina cheat.
    — Ann Hornaday, chicagotribune.com, 13 June 2019
  • Judge vaporized in July and August and might’ve cost the Bombers a chance to win the East.
    — Bob Klapisch, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2017
  • The laser vaporizes the hair, causing a small plume of smoke with a sulfur-like smell.
    — Heather L. Brannon, Md, Verywell Health, 22 Mar. 2023
  • On the day side, the heat of the star vaporizes more iron as the atmosphere spends more time exposed to it.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 Mar. 2020
  • Bird got a glimpse of that script early on and his fears vaporized.
    — Christopher Nolan, USA TODAY, 22 July 2023
  • The cross vaporized as the golfer was hit by lightning on the Florida course.
    — Mike Oliver | Moliver@al.com, al, 2 Nov. 2019
  • At the same time, threatening to vaporize the stocks makes little sense to me.
    — Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
  • They were left to gradually fall back to earth and vaporize in the process.
    — Bojan Pancevski, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2021
  • When a comet loops in close to the sun, the heat vaporizes some of its outer ice and causes chunks of debris to break off in its wake.
    — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 23 Dec. 2016
  • Watch the titan of Apokolips vaporize some Atlanteans with his Omega eye beams in the clip below.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Those are facts that won’t sit well with many who saw their investments in the bank vaporized this spring.
    — John S. Tobey, Forbes, 2 May 2023
  • The energy to vaporize the water comes from heat in the air, which leaves the left-behind air cooler.
    — Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic, 2 Sep. 2020
  • Beaming the waves down the well will vaporize the rocks, allowing Quaise to drill at a rate of about 16 feet per hour, the company says.
    — Benoît Morenne, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2022
  • The mash is pushed through stills, a process that extracts vaporized alcohol from the residue, which can then be fed to livestock.
    — Emily Bingham, Travel + Leisure, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Heat from their pulses tends to build up and vaporize healthy tissue.
    — Erin Biba, WIRED, 24 Nov. 2008
  • But if vaporized in a fire, the chemical is highly corrosive to the eyes, skin and throat.
    — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
  • And after filling up, make sure the gas cap clicks tight so fuel doesn’t vaporize.
    — Dallas News, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Two little tweed Chanel lunching suits seem to vaporize into mist at the hems.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 4 May 2023
  • Heated to millions of degrees, the gold emits x-rays that vaporize the diamond shell of the capsule.
    — Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The Death Star is a near-perfect sphere, a hundred miles across, with a planet-vaporizing laser.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2018
  • The carbon in the trees, and the other half in the soil and mycelium and roots, might vaporize into thin air, compounding climate change.
    — Suzanne Simard, Wired, 7 May 2021
  • The object of its focus—the tank that’s about to be demolished or the wedding that’s about to be vaporized—is in the center of the frame because that’s where the bombs are meant to fall.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2023
  • But there's a chance that some of the molten rock and metals would vaporize and create a bit of a local atmosphere on the star-facing side.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Dec. 2021
  • The concern is that the chemical has vaporized, but so far, testing has shown no evidence of it in the air.
    — Jill Tucker, SFChronicle.com, 3 Mar. 2020
  • On Facebook, somebody writes something nasty about me, somebody will flag it and it may be vaporized the next day.
    — Nicholas Thompson, WIRED, 6 July 2018
  • Thumb your nose at the Empire that is Lucasfilm, however, and you might get vaporized, or at the very least be forced to fall in line.
    — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 16 May 2018
  • Solar radiation from the star—in our case the sun—vaporizes some of the comet’s frozen material, blowing gas and dust away from the nucleus that then reflects the star’s light.
    — Jorge Garay, WIRED, 13 Sep. 2024
  • This told them impact vaporization was the most pivotal process in vaporizing atoms and ejecting them into the moon's atmosphere.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2024

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