How to Use water vapor in a Sentence

water vapor

noun
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  • The pressure of the water vapor pushes paint off the wood.
    — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The storms are airborne rivers of water vapor pushed by wind.
    — Ben Tracy, CBS News, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The water vapor will disperse across your dog's body and keep them cool.
    — Emily Belfiore, PEOPLE.com, 12 July 2021
  • In the WASP-96b spectrum, the peaks indicate the presence of water vapor.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 19 July 2022
  • The illusions of fire emit water vapor that looks like tufts of smoke.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2022
  • The volcano increased the amount of water vapor in the stratosphere by 5 percent, one study found.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2023
  • The clouds seem to form as water vapor freezes into ice crystals at this height.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2021
  • The thin fabric hangs near the front of the tent and traps the water vapor from your breath to this area, leaving the rest of the interior drier.
    — Adrienne Donica, Popular Mechanics, 3 Dec. 2020
  • This means there is water vapor in the air which eventually comes back down to the surface of the Earth to fill up all those lakes and stuff.
    — Rhett Allain, Wired, 10 Nov. 2020
  • The Xinjiang region, which was home to the giraffoid, was more arid due to the rise of the Tibetan Plateau in the south, which blocked the movement of water vapor.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 2 June 2022
  • There's water as a gas (water vapor), as a liquid (that wet stuff), and as a solid (ice).
    — Rhett Allain, Wired, 20 Feb. 2021
  • One of the two teams also looked for evidence of plumes of water vapor erupting from the moon’s surface.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2023
  • In the image of the exoplanet WASP-96b, water vapor was seen.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
  • The jet stream helps with development and transport of storm systems and water vapor across the globe.
    — Max Golembo, ABC News, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The spectrograph detected telltale signs of water vapor in the form of clouds and haze.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022
  • There is water in the air all around us in the form of water vapor, and the higher the amount of water vapor, the higher the humidity.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Clouds form when water vapor sticks to tiny particles floating in the air.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2021
  • The teal cloud is most likely water vapor from the eruption, with other gases seen as well.
    — Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2022
  • In the image, bright white clouds swirl around the planet’s azure oceans, looking more like abstract daubs of paint than droplets of water vapor.
    — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Nov. 2020
  • This product does not allow water vapor to pass through it.
    — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 30 Mar. 2024
  • These nifty skin-care tools mist warm, soothing water vapor on your skin, making your skin (and even your mind) feel refreshed in the process.
    — Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 14 Feb. 2022
  • The balls of water will evaporate into water vapor as the day warms.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2020
  • The process combines the gases with steam or air and then burns the mixture to produce water vapor and carbon dioxide.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2020
  • These rivers of water vapor can extend thousands of miles.
    — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2022
  • But cold air can’t hold as much water vapor as warm air, so cold air close to the ground is easier to saturate.
    — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The one that brought all manner of chaos to Los Angeles this week formed when water vapor rose from the sea’s surface somewhere east of Hawaii.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2024
  • As the droplet got hotter, minuscule bubbles of water vapor began to form between the droplet and the oil, then moved away.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Storms can bring humid conditions and high levels of water vapor in the air.
    — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2024
  • Atmospheric rivers are streams of water vapor in the sky.
    — NBC News, 6 Feb. 2024
  • This is because a warmer atmosphere can hold more water vapor, which provides added moisture and energy to storm systems.
    — Kathryn Varn, Axios, 5 Sep. 2024

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