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
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
Both photographs reveal an almost football-shaped cloud of smooth, vaporous material wrapped in sharper, wispy multicolored tendrils.
From Scientific American • Nov. 10, 2023
For a minute Marco didn't say anything, he simply opened his mouth and breathed out a blue, vaporous ring.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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