How to Use vaporize in a Sentence

vaporize

verb
  • Heat is used to vaporize the liquid.
  • Pressure causes the chemical to vaporize.
  • But that idea vaporizes in the wake of a deus ex machina cheat.
    — Ann Hornaday, chicagotribune.com, 13 June 2019
  • When a comet near the sun, its dust and ice begins to vaporize.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Bird got a glimpse of that script early on and his fears vaporized.
    — Christopher Nolan, USA TODAY, 22 July 2023
  • Heat from their pulses tends to build up and vaporize healthy tissue.
    — Erin Biba, WIRED, 24 Nov. 2008
  • The laser vaporizes the hair, causing a small plume of smoke with a sulfur-like smell.
    — Heather L. Brannon, Md, Verywell Health, 22 Mar. 2023
  • In stone or layers of dust in which there is no ice that could be vaporized, the drilling process would be stopped.
    — Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Decades of military build-up have been vaporized in days.
    — Susan Shelley, Oc Register, 7 Mar. 2026
  • With all that set, all that was left was to fire up the Z machine and vaporize some rock.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Those are facts that won’t sit well with many who saw their investments in the bank vaporized this spring.
    — John S. Tobey, Forbes, 2 May 2023
  • They were left to gradually fall back to earth and vaporize in the process.
    — Bojan Pancevski, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2021
  • So for all anyone knew then, a direct hit by a lightsaber just vaporized a person.
    — Mike Ryan, IndieWire, 4 May 2026
  • At the same time, threatening to vaporize the stocks makes little sense to me.
    — Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Here, people must have been instantly vaporized all the way down to their bones.
    — Charles Pellegrino, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
  • And after filling up, make sure the gas cap clicks tight so fuel doesn’t vaporize.
    — Dallas News, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Such compounds can vaporize in the air and cause harmful health effects.
    — Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 22 Jan. 2025
  • On the day side, the heat of the star vaporizes more iron as the atmosphere spends more time exposed to it.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 Mar. 2020
  • Patients would be told to vaporize the leaf or bud in an electronic device.
    — Sam Wood, Philly.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • The idea being that when an atomic bomb lands in your city, you are vaporized instantly.
    — Kevin Dickinson, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The first Starship launch vaporized part of the launch site and threw debris as far as 6 miles.
    — Taylor Kate Brown, ProPublica, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The cross vaporized as the golfer was hit by lightning on the Florida course.
    — Mike Oliver | [email protected], al, 2 Nov. 2019
  • After an hour of gentle tumbling, about half of the water has been vaporized.
    — Tyler Kord, Popular Mechanics, 29 June 2019
  • Two little tweed Chanel lunching suits seem to vaporize into mist at the hems.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 4 May 2023
  • So, will the soon-to-be received fresh bundles of cash be vaporized by inflation?
    — Bruce Yandle, Twin Cities, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Theia’s impact would have vaporized much of our planet’s surface and melted the rest.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 19 July 2024
  • Much of Theia and the forming Earth were vaporized as the heat of impact shot out molten rock.
    — Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2025
  • When a comet loops in close to the sun, the heat vaporizes some of its outer ice and causes chunks of debris to break off in its wake.
    — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 23 Dec. 2016
  • The projectile then vaporizes cleanly at the rock face, breaking it up.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Stern planned to vaporize a sample of silver and concentrate it into a beam of atoms.
    — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 6 Dec. 2023

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