vaporous

Example Sentences

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Movie scripts, like vexed suitors, struggle to pin down a vaporous lover.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2025

“Whatever’s wrong with me, I will take to bed,” Cain begins in a slow, vaporous falsetto.

From New York Times • Nov. 15, 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

Mr. Iii was a tall, vaporous, thin man with thick blind blue crystals over his yellowish eyes.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury