vaporous

Example Sentences

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Lady Constance exclaimed, clapping her hands and whirling her skirts in the vaporous air.

From Literature

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

From Los Angeles Times

In Malofeev’s subjugating hands, Janácek’s vaporously evocative “In the Mists” became “In the Thick, Disorienting and Blinding Fog” and led, without a pause, into Liszt’s doomed and drummed “Funérailles,” creating an extraordinary sonic vista.

From Los Angeles Times

“Whatever’s wrong with me, I will take to bed,” Cain begins in a slow, vaporous falsetto.

From New York Times

Loftus regarded so-called recovered memories as concoctions “spun not from solid facts but from the vaporous breezes of wishes, dreams, fears, desires.”

From Los Angeles Times