How to Use vapor in a Sentence

vapor

1 of 2 noun
  • This will cool its payload of vapor and kick off weeks and waves of rain and snow.
    — New York Times, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The melting ice is then released as a jet of vapor.
    — Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Day guests can visit the vapor cave and outdoor pool for up to two hours.
    — Alex Schechter, Travel + Leisure, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Fog brushes the bluffs like a tide turned into vapor.
    — Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The vapor has been linked to lung and heart disease, as well as cancer.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC news, 15 May 2026
  • As the plant vapor scatters blue light from the sky, the fog often takes on a blue hue.
    — Susan Glaser, cleveland, 22 Sep. 2022
  • These use a wick to absorb water, then a fan to blow vapor into the air.
    — Brittany Vanderbill, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Never leave gas cans in a closed vehicle to avoid the buildup of gas vapors.
    — Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The fog is caused in part by vapor emitted by the trees, bushes and other plants.
    — Susan Glaser, cleveland, 22 Sep. 2022
  • And so there's also a new vapor chamber right in the middle of the back of this phone.
    — Alex Harrington, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • How in the world does my $40 machine make vapor of water so fast?
    — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Their furious kicks churned the water and left white vapor trails in the sky-blue pool.
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Tax sale of all vapor products at 10% of the wholesale cost.
    — Vivian Jones, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
  • These vapors kill clothes moth larvae, which snack on natural fibers like wool and silk.
    — Kate Van Pelt, The Spruce, 29 Dec. 2025
  • The baker hits the button, floods the oven-deck with a gash of vapor—for how many seconds?
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Life is a vapor, here today and gone tomorrow.
    — Lydia Mee, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
  • To solve this, the team turned to vapor deposition.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 20 Dec. 2025
  • Its vapor is lighter than air and has the same pungent odor as household ammonia.
    — CBS News, 3 Sep. 2022
  • About 50% of that vapor in the air is drifting away and not ending up on the lawn at all.
    — Anthony Karcz, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The shaft was no longer ventilated, and gusts of hot vapor blew up from the tunnels.
    — Kimon De Greef, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • At the end, the only byproduct is more clean vapor, once the hydrogen is used.
    — Rachel Ingram, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Pedro lifted the cloth when the water reached a boil and the kitchen filled with fragrant vapor.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Jan. 2026
  • First downs — a total of nine of them — were little more than vapor for the visitors here.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Warm-mist models work by boiling water to release a warm vapor.
    — Daryl Austin, USA Today, 13 Dec. 2025
  • The chemical is heavier than air, so its vapor would settle and sink.
    — Luzdelia Caballero, CBS News, 22 May 2026
  • The chemical is heavier than air, so its vapor would settle and sink.
    — Austin Turner, CBS News, 24 May 2026
  • The chemical is heavier than air, so its vapor would settle and sink.
    — Austin Turner, CBS News, 23 May 2026
  • The devices filled the train car with vapor as passengers covered their faces and fought to breathe.
    — Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Cooling is handled by an active fan and a vapor chamber.
    — New Atlas, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The wheezing mixed with the cold fall night to produce a steamy, white vapor that vanished into the night.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 15 Apr. 2026

vapor

2 of 2 verb
  • The work had to be done quickly as water vanished to vapor in the early summer heat.
    — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 19 June 2021
  • The other challenge was the presence of both liquid and vapor the refrigeration cycle.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 10 June 2021
  • Large windows angle open, and massive glass doors turn indoors into outdoors with a smooth slide as state-of-the-art ventilation systems silently spirit smoke and vapor away.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Despite what ads tell you, no waterproof shell is completely breathable—blocking water requires some impediments to vapor transfer.
    — Outside Online, 27 May 2022
  • In the fourth, Evers used his veto in an attempt to ensure a tax on vaping products would apply to any device containing fluid and to vapor fluid sold separately.
    — Washington Post, 31 July 2019
  • Meanwhile, in a natural process called wicking, that moisture turns to vapor as it is continuously pulled outward from minuscule air spaces between the fibers of the felt, eventually evaporating entirely.
    — Emma Wartzman, Bon Appétit, 5 Nov. 2020

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