How to Use vaporous in a Sentence

vaporous

adjective

• The green hills and vaporous forests still call to them.
  — Rick Lyman, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2017
• The scents of citrus and cow dung mingle in the vaporous haze.
  — Max Falkowitz, Saveur, 28 Nov. 2018
• The hot, dry inland air rises and creates a vacuum that sucks in the cold, vaporous air from over the ocean [Wired.com].
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 16 Feb. 2010
• As with many of Cline’s heroines, Alex’s desires are at once basic and vaporous.
  — Michelle Hart, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023
• And, by the way, what is this swirling pool of vaporous mystery into which Royal dumps a body in the opening moments of the series?
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 12 Apr. 2022
• Big, fluffy volumes overhead are shot through with vaporous light.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2021
• Ebooks reduce the experience of the book to something almost vaporous, a whisper, as if the book traveled to you on the wind.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2020
• So vaporous was this suggestion of a suggestion that the Australian diplomats thought little of it at the time.
  — The Editors, National Review, 16 May 2023
• Benches formed from twisted branches, based on a design by Church, looked off into the vaporous vista.
  — Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2021
• When our politicians speak, their vaporous words dissolve like ants in a blazing furnace.
  — Joseph Loconte, National Review, 7 Apr. 2020
• While Abel Tesfaye leads things off with his signature vaporous vocals, French grounds the track with nimble rap.
  — Raisa Bruner, Time, 14 July 2017
• Just as striking, though, are the mists that shroud the water line, sometimes ascending in vaporous columns, and the diffused light that streaks the lake’s surface and highlights the trees’ trunks and leaves.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 3 June 2022
• The days leading up to the show had been marked by a vaporous, low-key mini panic inspired partly by the recent disaster at the Astroworld fest in Houston.
  — al, 13 Nov. 2021
• Earth and sky are clearly distinguished in the typical Jane Kell landscape, but details of both are soft, smeary and almost vaporous.
  — Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2022
• The instrumental music whips endlessly from a vaporous, stormy fog of sound to harsh crashes.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 11 June 2018
• While most of these artists make work that appears soft and even vaporous, Cho playfully uses linen, silk and yarn to imitate plastic and metal.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2023
• Kim’s images, mostly color but sometimes black-and-white, are less vaporous and more specific.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
• The cut-outs expose the wall on which the painting hangs, but slow perusal begins to reveal vaporous flickers of pale color within the neat lineup of empty spaces.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 24 Feb. 2018
• With the exception of one clever twist at the midway point, what transpires here is thin, vaporous and awfully derivative.
  — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 4 Jan. 2018
• Even a vaporous threat of Republicans at the barricades prompted Schumer to retreat.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 13 Feb. 2021
• According to the nD site, the little console is still in the prototyping phase of development, so the entire project still seems a little vaporous at this point.
  — Roy Wood, WIRED, 29 June 2011
• And the vaporous tail of the comet saturated the upper atmosphere with excess water, which lead to a cataclysmic rainfall.
  — National Geographic, 30 Dec. 2016
• And the vaporous tail of the comet saturated the upper atmosphere with excess water, which lead to a cataclysmic rainfall.
  — National Geographic, 30 Dec. 2016
• They were joined by Bergdorf's Linda Fargo, as well as other stylish guests dressed in Simone's romantic, vaporous dresses and oversized hair bows.
  — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 May 2022
• Promises to fly further than a few hundred miles with hydrogen, however, still look vaporous.
  — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2022
• Conversely, during the sun’s nadir, Neptune’s vaporous veil fades away — although it isn’t known why the current dearth of clouds is so extreme compared with previous cycles.
  — Robin George Andrews, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2023
• The vaporous mist of the morning dew is really the phosphorescence of toxic radiation.
  — Jeff Weiss, Spin, 21 Aug. 2023
• Olsen’s voice was higher and wilder then, occasionally slipping into a kind of vaporous warble.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
• The song fits well alongside modern vaporous sounds that aspire to its era, but the demo’s ephemerality can’t be detached from its appeal: a recording truly lost to time, dug up from the analog ruins.
  — Matthew Trammell, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2017
• Most fraud claims, however, have proved vaporous, and convictions are sparse — nine since 2015 and only one of them a foreigner — and placed a heavy burden on ordinary citizens.
  — Michael Wines and Julie Bosman, New York Times, 14 May 2017

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