How to Use evaporate in a Sentence

evaporate

verb
  • Let the liquid start to evaporate.
  • The heat evaporated the water.
  • The opportunity evaporated before he could act on it.
  • The blood heats the sweat, which evaporates, cooling the skin.
    Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Even with just one spray, the red wine seemed to evaporate.
    Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The land dried up, and the Aral Sea—the great oasis of the Asian steppes—evaporated.
    Henry Duckworth, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
  • That should be warm enough to melt some snow and evaporate snow or ice off of many roads.
    oregonlive, 23 Feb. 2023
  • By the end of that first month, his urges had evaporated.
    Megan Molteni, STAT, 10 July 2023
  • By the way, rain can fall from a cloud and evaporate before reaching the ground.
    Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 11 May 2021
  • The higher percentage, the less room for sweat to evaporate from the body.
    Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Once the vinegar is evaporated, pour in the broth and bring this mixture to a boil.
    Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The alcohol in the gel melts the ice in the lock and the hand sanitizer will evaporate.
    Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The Warriors won the third by 16, evaporating a slow start.
    Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 31 Mar. 2024
  • Behind the scenes: By then, Trump's lead in the polls had evaporated.
    Dave Lawler, Axios, 2 Nov. 2024
  • The cold air helps evaporate the excess water and create the crust.
    Elizabeth Karmel, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
  • The good news is that most of the time, the water will evaporate naturally.
    Delaney Nothaft, USA TODAY, 29 July 2023
  • And any heat waves this spring could evaporate some of that snow water.
    Diana Leonard, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Feb. 2023
  • If the air is already full of moisture, there’s nowhere for our sweat to evaporate.
    Kylie Mohr, The Atlantic, 22 June 2024
  • Comas are the gaseous clouds that form around the nucleus as the comet's ices evaporate.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 July 2021
  • When there is a lot of moisture in the air, sweat evaporates much more slowly, or not at all.
    Laura Paddison, CNN, 29 July 2024
  • Once the butter melts, bubbles will begin to form along the sides of the saucepan, a sign of the water evaporating off.
    Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2023
  • As the syrup cooks, water evaporates and the sugar begins to caramelize.
    Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 30 July 2023
  • Keep in mind, your body sweats and then cools itself as the moisture evaporates from your skin.
    Michelle Deal-Zimmerman, Baltimore Sun, 21 June 2024
  • The Soul Stone might just evaporate and return to its handler.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 30 May 2021
  • The water content of the butter will look foamy and rise to the surface then begin to evaporate.
    Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 30 Nov. 2023
  • If the weather is cold enough and the lakes freeze over, less snow falls because the water can't evaporate into the air.
    Jalen Williams, Detroit Free Press, 12 Dec. 2024
  • If the weather is cold enough and the lakes freeze over, less snow falls because the water can't evaporate into the air.
    Jalen Williams, Detroit Free Press, 3 Dec. 2024
  • The moisture will evaporate up and around the plant, giving it more humidity than the rest of the room.
    Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2021
  • The money the couple saved for a down payment on a home has evaporated into attorneys fees and savings to pay a bond for her release, if she's given that chance.
    Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2025
  • That liquid water has now all gone, either frozen into polar ice caps or as permafrost beneath the surface, or evaporated into the atmosphere and lost to space.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 25 Feb. 2025

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