vapory

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Officers responded to Beyond the Cloud Vapory, located at 17th Avenue Northeast and Lake City Way Northeast, just before 6 p.m., said Seattle police spokesperson Valerie Carson.

From Seattle Times

“You start looking at a cloud and you start seeing patterns. You need a lot of vapory detail and big, dramatic flourishes.”

From Los Angeles Times

One of the black vapory ghosts was wearing the lion’s-skin cape of a standard bearer and holding a pole with a golden eagle, icicles frozen to its wings.

From Literature

The few times he dared to look up, she looked up, too; her eyes drifting coolly, calmly, collectedly across his face, probing with a vapory lack of concern.

From Literature

Hair dark as a starless night flowed from beneath this helmet, and streamed in long tresses over the fair shoulders whereof the commencement only, alas! was left exposed by a collarette, or gorget, adorned with many rows of serpentine stones, azodrachs, and chrysoberyls; a linen robe diagonally cut—a mist of material, of woven air, ventus textilis as Petronius says, undulated in vapory whiteness about a lovely body whose outlines it scarcely shaded with the softest shading.

From Project Gutenberg