evanesce

Example Sentences

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Grapple with it, and it evanesces like smoke clutched in a mailed fist.

From New York Times

It was as if Buddhism evanesced the same way that its master teacher did.

From The New Yorker

His interest in particulars all but evanesced in spiraling mists of radiant, moisture-laden air.

From Washington Post

To evanesce means to disappear gradually, vanish or fade away, and Ms. Hinkle’s work is poignant, timely — and coincidental.

From New York Times

The paintings evoke what the late journalist Gwen Ifill once termed “Missing White Women Syndrome,” as the disappearance of female African Americans evanesces into an oblivion determined by the dominant race.

From Los Angeles Times