- present participle of vapor.
vaporing
Example Sentences
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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
Must not the vaporing Burgoyne, who, it is said, possesses great sensibility, be humbled to the dust?
From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Adams, Abigail
Alone he faced the roystering Morton at Merrymount, unarming that vaporing rebel and putting his riotous colony upon its good behavior.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
I appear to be vaporing in a spirit of vainglory; and yet it is under the mere coercion of 'salva necessitas' that I am surprised into this unparalleled instance of activity.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 by Various
