(Used of substances) capable of being volatilized.
Resembling or characteristic of vapor.
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Examples for "vaporous"
Examples for "vaporous"
1On the side above the woods, the sky was dark and vaporous.
2A soft whispering noise floated in vaporous cloudlets out of the box.
3If they were both vaporous, there would be a gradation between them.
4The 'Clouds' drip with mist, and are dim with aërial vaporous effects.
5The Magician's aura immediately snapped alight, sizzling yellow and vaporous around him.
1If he do marry, he doubts he shall have a vapourish wife.
2The conception is generally vague, vapourish, and metaphysical.
3A man had better be plagued with all the curses of Egypt than with a vapourish wife.
4I feel sad at times, and vapourish.
5In it I acquainted her with the house I was about taking; and with Mrs. Fretchville's vapourish delays.
1Garman's was the victory, the victory of bitter knowledge over the vaporish ideals of youth.
2Far off across the glittering ocean of sand and alkali a yellowish cloud-almostvaporish, arose.
3No wonder the political writing in the press seems to us vaporish and without definite aims.
4It is not a thin, vaporish flat, without depth or density; and its circumference exceeds that of the earth.
5A vaporish place, too delicate and subtle for such fun-loving, corpulent specimens of the Creator's wisdom as old Jack Falstaff.
1But his arguments were vapourous enough and made little impression on Barneveld.
2Her geometry had been fluid, or rather, vapourous, and had floated away, unthought of and unregretted.
3Suddenly the horizon was enveloped in a vapourous fog, and seemed to contract until it was close around us.
4I had reached, as it were, a higher level of that mountainous and vapourous visions, the heaven of a higher levity.
5We were in July now, and misty, vapourous clouds moved slowly over the blue sky, seeming to intensify the heat of the unclouded intervals.