How to Use evaporate in a Sentence

evaporate

verb
  • Let the liquid start to evaporate.
  • The heat evaporated the water.
  • The opportunity evaporated before he could act on it.
  • This could all evaporate by the all-star break.
    — John Shipley, Twin Cities, 22 May 2026
  • Why do these black holes evaporate?
    — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025
  • That should be warm enough to melt some snow and evaporate snow or ice off of many roads.
    — oregonlive, 23 Feb. 2023
  • People with oily skin may find gels take longer to evaporate.
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
  • And any heat waves this spring could evaporate some of that snow water.
    — Diana Leonard, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Feb. 2023
  • As the fragrant steam filled the space, my stress seemed to evaporate with it.
    — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 29 Dec. 2025
  • The blood heats the sweat, which evaporates, cooling the skin.
    — Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Dec. 2024
  • In other words—one wrong tweet, and the dream evaporates.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
  • But then his command evaporated in the third, and the lead along with it.
    — Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 29 Apr. 2026
  • By the way, rain can fall from a cloud and evaporate before reaching the ground.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 11 May 2021
  • As water evaporates from our skin, the surface of our skin cools.
    — Kasha Patel, Washington Post, 19 June 2024
  • Instead, the dry heat from your furnace could evaporate the mist or blow it away.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The meat will release its juices and then brown while the juices nearly evaporate.
    — Lynda Balslev, Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2026
  • As water evaporates, the steam will help loosen up a bit of the gunk for easy cleaning.
    — Matthew Korfhage, WIRED, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Most of those gains evaporated in a matter of days.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 29 May 2026
  • If the air is already full of moisture, there’s nowhere for our sweat to evaporate.
    — Kylie Mohr, The Atlantic, 22 June 2024
  • Most of these changes were just caused by the water evaporating.
    — Joel S. Levine, The Conversation, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Keep in mind, your body sweats and then cools itself as the moisture evaporates from your skin.
    — Michelle Deal-Zimmerman, Baltimore Sun, 21 June 2024
  • If your clothes are too tight, the sweat on your skin can't evaporate, which is key to keeping your body cool.
    — Carmel Wroth, NPR, 2 July 2026
  • When there is a lot of moisture in the air, sweat evaporates much more slowly, or not at all.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN, 29 July 2024
  • Stars will go dark, stellar remnants will fade away, and even black holes will evaporate.
    — Big Think, 13 Mar. 2026
  • This rift causes the black hole to slowly evaporate.
    — Dipangkar Dutta, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Passing by the sun too often would have caused many of them to evaporate quickly.
    — Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The key here is sheets that are light enough to allow moisture to evaporate into the air.
    — Popular Science, 1 Dec. 2020
  • Once the vinegar is evaporated, pour in the broth and bring this mixture to a boil.
    — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Dec. 2024
  • As your body heat begins to warm the towel, the water starts to evaporate.
    — Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 4 July 2026
  • Yes, the rote tasks are evaporating and in the mix, many of us will be unemployed.
    — Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025

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