How to Use vapor trail in a Sentence

vapor trail

noun
  • In 2020, Rublev was attached to a vapor trail from the start.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2021
  • In a video shared in the post, the divers were seen jumping out of an aircraft as vapor trails followed behind them.
    — Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 27 Jan. 2026
  • From the outdoor practice field, across the field house turf and into the locker room, the Bills leave vapor trails.
    — Tim Graham, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
  • And in less than five minutes, that pillar crash landed in the vapor trail left by Saquon Barkley's feet.
    — Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 22 Oct. 2017
  • The rancher began to suspect that all white vapor trails from aircraft might be dangerous.
    — Stephanie Armour, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Afterwards, any pizza plans are scuppered when the sound of police sirens fills the air and the skyline becomes a blitz of vapor trails.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 27 June 2024
  • Overhead, twin glints of silver were traveling nearly wing-to-wing and scratching a vapor trail across the heavens.
    — Charles Pellegrino, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
  • But their vapor trail of success reeks of arrogance and entitlement.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 19 May 2026
  • McAvoy chased in his vapor trail, but Marino finished with a backhand tuck for the Pens’ first lead of the night.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Patterson flung open the doors, welcoming the publicity that rode on the vapor trail of a win against a blue-blood program.
    — Andy Staples, SI.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Parise, who badly misread the attack, suddenly was chasing in Krug’s vapor trail.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Nov. 2019
  • The awesome spectacle and the long, lingering vapor trail brought people outside or to their windows to see what happened—and that’s when the shock wave touched down.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Subsequent bubbles typically formed near the same spots, forming a single vapor trail that served to push the droplet in a preferred direction.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Even when Westbrook left opponents in his vapor trail, the Thunder harped on him to take the extra dribble and finish higher off the glass.
    — Lee Jenkins, SI.com, 19 Feb. 2018
  • Seen from above, the sea is always the most extraordinary blue, its surface patterned with winds and cloud shadows, the wakes of pleasure boats scrolling behind like vapor trails.
    — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 July 2023
  • The painter’s short, incandescent career left a vapor trail across the sky of American Art that glowed brightly and faded quickly.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2021
  • One of the league’s fastest skaters, DeBrusk caught up with the puck around the defensive blue line and raced in for his shot off the rush, with Forsling chasing in his vapor trail.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Additionally, planes emit contrails, or vapor trails that prevent planet-warming gases from escaping into space.
    — Dave Smith, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Airplanes do release vapor trails called contrails, short for condensation trails,which form when water vapor condenses into ice crystals around the small particles emitted by jet engines.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN, 27 May 2023
  • But this parallels the storm's counterclockwise swing and its atmospheric river, a vapor trail that has soaked up tropical precipitation near Hawaii and swept it northeast to California.
    — NBC News, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Advertisement Although few people had even heard of atmospheric rivers just a couple of decades ago, research into the mammoth vapor trails has proved critical to California water planning and public safety.
    — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Weather permitting, residents of several mid-Atlantic states, including parts of New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia and North Carolina, may be able to catch the rockets’ visible vapor trails.
    — Denise Chow, NBC news, 25 Aug. 2025

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