evanesce

His later “wedge” sculptures, slender prisms of color that can reach heights of 8 feet, seemed to evanesce into transparent nothingness at the top.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2020

And, by the way, I think it would evanesce very completely.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 17, 2019

The ethereal vision of Fonny wreathed in smoke isn’t only striking; it exalts this moment and communicates its evanesce, turning emotion and thought into image.

From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2018

Perhaps Lerner deliberately left this out, deeming it too on-the-nose, but the technical term meaning “to evanesce into vapor,” for a liquid, is “to sublime.”

From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2016

Just as he was about to evanesce completely, Frieda, Liz, and Betty burst in from the kitchen.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

On Thursday, it evanesced in a pinnacle of silence, which Runnicles sustained at some length before allowing in the applause.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2016

Young people flocked to Nader, and hip musicians played his rallies: The lineup in New York included Eddie Vedder, Patti Smith, and Ani DiFranco, whose ’90s cool had not yet evanesced.

From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2016

A seagoing Navy man who later spent beatnik years in New York that evanesced into hippiedom in California, Mr. Stone led an adventuresome early life that was crucial in the development of his work.

From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2015

As bioluminescence roiled around my ankles, I waded toward a white sand shore fringed with palms to where several thatched villas set in foliage awaited, and the travails of the long odyssey effortlessly evanesced.

From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2012

Theresa had nothing to say, not anymore; her authority had evanesced.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

But in the go-go '90s, the period between appearing on TV and getting a fat book deal is evanescing.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even Jack Kemp got left in the countinghouse to pine for evanescing gold.

From Time Magazine Archive

These sciences reveal types of life evanescing into each other by inexpressible refinements of change.

From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David

The chico, corresponding in a Spanish hotel to a piccolo in Germany or a page in England, or our own now evanescing bell-boy, was to get a peseta for bringing me the letter.

From Familiar Spanish Travels by Howells, William Dean

Just before sunset, from beneath a belt of clouds evanescing over the summit, an inconceivably tender, brilliant glow of rosy violet mantled downward, filling all the valley.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 by Various