vapor

Example Sentences

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The emergency started Thursday, when the fire department responded to a vapor leak from a 34,000-gallon tank at a Garden Grove, Calif., plant belonging to GKN Aerospace, a British maker of jet parts.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

"If it does explode and there is a vapor, you are all safe as long as you are out of the zone that was determined to be an evacuation zone," she said.

From Barron's • May 23, 2026

After their initial findings, the Sheriff’s Office asked for additional data and academic research to support their new method for detecting remains using soil vapor.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026

Three years ago, Nelligan and his colleagues, working from the backyard of a neighbor of Susan Flores, used soil vapor sampling to detect volatile organic compounds they say may be associated with decomposing human remains.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026

At once they closed with each other, trailing streams of vapor, and dizzy, both of them, from the sickening fumes.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman