How to Use disappear in a Sentence

disappear

verb
  • The two men disappeared around the corner.
  • The dinosaurs disappeared millions of years ago.
  • He disappeared without a trace two years ago.
  • These problems won't just disappear by themselves.
  • The speaker suddenly disappeared just before the beginning of the ceremony.
  • Musk didn’t make clear in his tweet this week when these source labels will disappear.
    Rachel Metz, CNN, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Mars begins to go behind the moon, then will disappear in about one second.
    Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Twitter will not disappear overnight, as some never-Muskers predict.
    Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Yale and Harvard will not disappear from the law school rankings, however.
    Reuters, NBC News, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Its status as a — perhaps the — model of red-state governance is not going to disappear.
    Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Characters fall in and out of love, marry up, disgrace themselves, disappear for hundreds of pages, die.
    Charles Arrowsmith, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Thus, those unsightly skin marks will disappear quickly while the lesions are eliminated.
    Jon Goodwin, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2022
  • For Hughes and Hronek, time and space at the point disappeared from early December onward.
    Jimmy Durkin, The Athletic, 13 Dec. 2024
  • With restaurants closed, and a complete ban on having people outside of your bubble—let alone chefs—in your home, their entire business model disappeared overnight.
    Lela London, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Rather, Linklater's Vienna is a sleepy town whose villagers are few and who all politely disappear as the night goes on, until we are left with only our two lovers.
    Brian Smolensky, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2022
  • But the company says its project is inspired by natural processes and offers a last chance to protect a disappearing ecosystem as the world fails to act swiftly on climate change.
    Laura Paddison, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The man's messages didn't disappear from the iMac, and his wife found them.
    Joe Hindy, PCMAG, 14 June 2024
  • The crackly bread sops up all the sweet-savory juices and will disappear in the blink of an eye.
    Nina Moskowitz, Bon Appétit, 25 Apr. 2024
  • The actor who’s made his mark in dozens of TV and film roles will not disappear.
    Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 23 Mar. 2024
  • At the end of the game, though, the mascot will disappear and the winning player will, well, eat it.
    Bychris Morris, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2023
  • After changing hands a few times in the early 1800s, the work disappeared from the records.
    Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The city outside disappears behind the gate, just birdsong in the air.
    Rick Jordan, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Feb. 2024
  • At this point, half of the Kit Kats had disappeared, while the other half were stuck in storage.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Records related to the cases — some of which date back to the 1950s — have disappeared.
    Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
  • In the late 1960s, Covey, a runaway bride disappears off the coast of Jamaica.
    Jaden Thompson, Variety, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The Americans who were on the plane with them have disappeared.
    David Szalay, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2024
  • In the ’90s, all of a sudden the borders in fashion disappeared.
    Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2024
  • The app disappeared from Google and Apple stores, and its website was blocked.
    Suhasini Raj, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The French paratroopers were lethal agents, trained to strike and then disappear.
    Ségolène Le Stradic, New York Times, 5 June 2024
  • The film turns on a famed actor who disappears while making a film.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 24 May 2023

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