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
His later “wedge” sculptures, slender prisms of color that can reach heights of 8 feet, seemed to evanesce into transparent nothingness at the top.
From Los Angeles Times
In the handful of works by Vuillard, both the abstract patterning and the absence of modeling cause the borders between the picture’s separate elements to evanesce.
From Washington Post
Grapple with it, and it evanesces like smoke clutched in a mailed fist.
From New York Times
It was as if Buddhism evanesced the same way that its master teacher did.
From The New Yorker
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