vaporous

Example Sentences

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Loftus regarded so-called recovered memories as concoctions “spun not from solid facts but from the vaporous breezes of wishes, dreams, fears, desires.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2024

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

Nels, flailing, his breath issuing forth in vaporous grunts, had broken out the ice with the handle of his toilet plunger, propped himself against the wall—his lumbago plagued him mercilessly—and dribbled night water unsteadily.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson