evanesce

Example Sentences

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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

In the handful of works by Vuillard, both the abstract patterning and the absence of modeling cause the borders between the picture’s separate elements to evanesce.

From Washington Post • Dec. 19, 2019

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

From The New Yorker • Jul. 17, 2019

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