vaporous

Example Sentences

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Movie scripts, like vexed suitors, struggle to pin down a vaporous lover.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2025

Hope needed a name and a shape, and what followed was anything but vaporous feelings.

From Slate • Jul. 31, 2024

"We let the biology do the harder job of converting information about vaporous chemicals into an electrical neural signal," Raman said.

From Science Daily • Jan. 26, 2024

But the heroine of “Coppelia” isn’t anything like the unattainable sylph of “La Sylphide” or the vaporous Wili of “Giselle.”

From New York Times • Dec. 18, 2023

Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires and fog in the valleys; cellos, dark windowpanes, snow.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt