vaporous

Example Sentences

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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

Both photographs reveal an almost football-shaped cloud of smooth, vaporous material wrapped in sharper, wispy multicolored tendrils.

From Scientific American • Nov. 10, 2023

As with many of Cline’s heroines, Alex’s desires are at once basic and vaporous.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2023

Soft peaks and vaporous chasms rose or opened here and there, but mostly it looked like a solid mass of ice.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman