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Meanings of vaporous in anglès
So thin as to transmit light.
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Sinònims
Examples for "miasmic"
Examples for "miasmic"
1
He will measure my words and calculate that I am miasmic.
2
The goblet of wine left behind a miasmic trail, like a miniature comet.
3
She is mired in the miasmic swamp I identify with Dionysus.
4
It was close beside a spring that gave out a faint, miasmic odor.
5
The mists arising from earth are only miasmic vapours after all!
1
The miasmal taint of the ominously proliferating vegetation was soon pervading the ship, spreading demoralization everywhere.
2
Jem, sitting beside him, was squint-eyed, miasmal, and mute, as he always was in the morning.
3
Some miasmal gust must have swept by, something born of want that scattered germs of anger and vengeance.
4
No doubt it is still down the well- Iknowthere was something wrong with the sunlight I saw above the miasmal brink.
5
No doubt it is still down the well- Iknowthere was something wrong with the sunlight I saw above that miasmal brink.
Resembling or characteristic of vapor.
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Usage of vaporous in anglès
1
On the side above the woods, the sky was dark and vaporous.
2
A soft whispering noise floated in vaporous cloudlets out of the box.
3
If they were both vaporous, there would be a gradation between them.
4
The 'Clouds' drip with mist, and are dim with aërial vaporous effects.
5
The Magician's aura immediately snapped alight, sizzling yellow and vaporous around him.
6
I hear it-hecalls-Overshadowthe heavens, O Jupiter, With thy vaporous clouds!
7
A mist hung over the valley, as fine and vaporous as breath.
8
The vaporous white figure before him swayed pitifully in the darkness.
9
The music from the fort came sudden and startling through the vaporous eddies.
10
Great mammals surfaced constantly, and puffs of vaporous steam hissed from their blowholes.
11
Air warm, sky vaporous blue, first flowers small but vivid among winter grass.
12
He peered at the vaporous Italian skyline and thought of Orr.
13
The air was warm with a vaporous warmth, and the stillness was unbroken.
14
He would go and see what power informed the vaporous music.
15
But such vaporous conjecture passed away as quickly as it came.
16
The girl I'd been seemed far off, vaporous, like a cloud.
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