dissipated
Example Sentences
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The power they had in qualification dissipated during the warm-up games.
From BBC
Investors have become wary again and the optimism on markets evident earlier in the week has dissipated.
“It is the opinion of the Ford Motor Company that automobile exhaust gases are dissipated in the atmosphere quickly and do not present an air pollution problem.”
From Los Angeles Times
As the gay and dissipated Ned, Mr. Taylor is sublimely funny: “Johnny Case? Isn’t that a Joan Crawford western?”
By the time it began to assemble, much of the gas in the surrounding disc may have already dissipated, leaving too little material to build a thick atmosphere.
From Science Daily
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