vapor

When leaves release water vapor through their stomata, they start the process of evapotranspiration, which draws water up to the tallest part of a plant, like a beverage being sucked through a straw.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

This equipment measured the oxygen each bird consumed, along with the carbon dioxide and water vapor it released.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

Essentially, cloud seeding speeds up the natural process of water vapor condensing inside of clouds.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

“That vapor in the coastal zone is going to make conditions more humid,” Gershunov said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

At the edge of the horizon, a flicker of movement caught her eye—something small and beige racing across the fields at incredible speed, leaving a vapor trail like a plane’s.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

As the bark burned, tar vapors condensed against the cooler surface, leaving behind a sticky residue that could be collected.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

The argument they’re advancing, as I can tell, is constructed out of preemption vapors.

From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2026

Did he inhale too deeply the vapors of power?

From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026

It’s possible, Whelton said, that spraying copious amounts of water on the tank had effectively suppressed much of the toxic vapors and the airborne risk.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026

He opened a world where a tropical rain forest steamed and dripped, and where vapors laden with heavy scent drifted out into the thin mountain air.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

The Tribune must have more "kick," so it vapored about "a few daring New Yorkers" venturing into the "far West," discovering Chicago and telling their friends about it.

From Time Magazine Archive

High over all this billowing and peaking tower the Pitons of Carbet, gem-violet through the vapored miles,—the tallest one filleted with a single soft white band of cloud.

From Two Years in the French West Indies by Lafcadio Hearn

The suck of fresh air under pressure, vapored like steam, whirled around them in gusts, and the water oozed and rippled beside 109 their feet as they went forward.

From The Plunderer by Douglas Duer

Mackenzie vapored and complained of others, formed plans one hour to change the next, and demonstrated the weakness of his shallow nature.

From The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825 by Gordon Sellar

The warriors were evidently baffled by these precautions, and, having smoked their pipe, and vapored off their valor, took their departure.

From Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Washington Irving

The press was busy vaporing upon the significance of a de Valera free to roam the Free State.

From Time Magazine Archive

Apparently the only contribution Fiver could make was this beetle-spirited vaporing.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

But we were the weakest when Slavery made us so loud-mouthed and vaporing; we shall be strongest when the cause of our boasting has disappeared.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 by Various

One heard that he was preaching higher wages in the public houses, another that he was asking Hodge what he got out of dear bread, a third that he was vaporing about commons and enclosures.

From The Great House by Stanley John Weyman

He immediately commenced, in his usual style of vaporing and flourish, as though this Yankee ship, arriving without his knowledge and consent, had compromised the welfare of the Spanish monarchy.

From An Old Sailor's Yarns by N. (Nathaniel) Ames