evanesce

Example Sentences

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These feature watery pools of color that seem to evanesce into nothing, topped by the hard geometries of Gray’s rug patterns, which are rendered in hand-stitched embroidery.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2021

And, by the way, I think it would evanesce very completely.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 17, 2019

The ethereal vision of Fonny wreathed in smoke isn’t only striking; it exalts this moment and communicates its evanesce, turning emotion and thought into image.

From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2018

Perhaps Lerner deliberately left this out, deeming it too on-the-nose, but the technical term meaning “to evanesce into vapor,” for a liquid, is “to sublime.”

From Slate • Jul. 8, 2016

Just as he was about to evanesce completely, Frieda, Liz, and Betty burst in from the kitchen.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole