How to Use evaporation in a Sentence

evaporation

noun
  • Ocean heat has also reached new records in the last year, accelerating evaporation rates and feeding more intense and frequent rainfall.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 4 Oct. 2024
  • At the other end of the climate scale, the hotter climates of Kentucky generate higher evaporation and an increase in alcoholic strength over time.
    Mark Littler, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The ratio between these isotopes is almost unchanged by processes taking place in the solar system such as evaporation and condensation.
    Sachiko Amari, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The lack of evaporation from the molten pool allows the glass to cool in a stress-free state, leaving a very strong weld.
    IEEE Spectrum, 9 May 2024
  • Cities use about 11% of the water in the lake’s basin, while 3% is lost to evaporation in reservoirs.
    Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Deep adds that this mixture can change the ear canal’s pH which aids in the evaporation process.
    Delaney Nothaft, USA TODAY, 29 July 2023
  • That wetness in the air slows the evaporation of sweat off your skin—a key way of staying cool.
    WIRED, 21 Sep. 2022
  • During a dry event, the air is warmer and can drive more evaporation from the surface.
    Kasha Patel, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2023
  • In this case, bald heads cooled the most through evaporation of water.
    Victoria Sayo Turner, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 June 2023
  • Sweat cools through evaporation, a process that transfers heat from the body into the air.
    Christopher Flavelle, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2022
  • This leads to more evaporation, which means less runoff ends up in the river, Milly said.
    Elise Hammond, CNN, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The drawings will quickly dry up under the sun to teach the concept of evaporation.
    Nicole Harris, Parents, 6 June 2023
  • The bright evaporation ponds act like mirrors, which Mr. Lique suspects heats the air.
    New York Times, 28 Dec. 2021
  • On the La Niña side, that could mean more evaporation, more heat and more extreme drought due to warmer conditions.
    Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2024
  • According to Greene, some of the casks lost 68 percent of the liquid from evaporation.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 11 Sep. 2023
  • This pick comes with a sturdy plastic ice scoop and plastic drip tray that's ribbed to help with evaporation.
    Eva Bleyer, goodhousekeeping.com, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Because there is not an open surface, there is no evaporation of the molten glass during the welding process.
    IEEE Spectrum, 9 May 2024
  • Blood carries heat from our core to our skin, and, when the breeze is too hot to carry heat away from us, the body can release it only through the evaporation of sweat.
    Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2024
  • Lamar noted that the park, besides being the hottest place in the world, also has the highest evaporation rate, so the lake may dry up within a few weeks.
    Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The early morning hours (before 9 a.m.) are best time to water for the least amount of water loss and evaporation.
    Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 11 July 2023
  • Both types of shelf-stable dairy milk have 60% of the water removed through evaporation.
    Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Sep. 2020
  • But normally the amount of water flowing into the area is much less than the evaporation rate.
    Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The rapid breathing motion causes the throat to produce saliva, and the evaporation cools.
    Stella Marie Hombach, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Humid heat can be more of a health risk because the more moisture there is in the air, the less the body can naturally cool itself off through the evaporation of sweat.
    Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Because heat has nowhere else to go, the rate of sea-surface evaporation has to speed up, which means more heat energy can pass into the storm.
    Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2022
  • This means there is more latent heat release from the ocean, more water evaporation.
    Max Golembo, ABC News, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Without those cooling winds, there is far less evaporation off the top of the water, which would bring the temperatures down.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 20 July 2023
  • This way less water is lost to evaporation from hot weather.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 9 July 2024
  • And to make things worse, the evaporation gets exacerbated when there is more surface area exposed to the sun.
    Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The rising temperatures then speed up evaporation, which dries out the ground even more.
    Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 11 July 2024

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