How to Use into thin air in a Sentence
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To many, the snow that seemed to vanish into thin air would go unnoticed.
—WIRED, 29 July 2023
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By the time the boys arrived home and police were summoned, Jacob and the man had vanished into thin air.
—Johnny Dodd, Peoplemag, 19 Oct. 2023
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There’s no way that my brother would just vanish into thin air like this.
—Melissa Alonso, CNN, 7 Sep. 2023
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In one building, your correspondent reached the top of a flight of stairs and stepped into thin air where a floor should have been.
—The Economist, 1 Aug. 2020
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Right as the 15-year-old stepped off the concrete and into thin air, a man in a light brown jacket wrapped his arms around Henick’s chest and pulled him back to safety.
—Caroline Tien, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Nov. 2021
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The older girl disappears into thin air as the villain strikes her down and the younger one is left alone to finish the battle.
—Aisha Salaudeen, CNN, 1 Jan. 2021
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With the owner having vanished into thin air, the ship was sold and put back into service.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2023
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The debt doesn’t disappear into thin air; it is transferred to others.
—WSJ, 6 June 2023
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Like socks and lip balm, beach towels have a way of disappearing into thin air.
—Southern Living, 7 Apr. 2021
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Somehow, a 12-foot-tall, full-body polar bear mount that had long presided over the second floor had vanished into thin air.
—Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 1 Feb. 2024
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But in 1715 someone cut all four sides of the canvas to hang it on a wall in Amsterdam’s Town Hall, and the strips seemingly vanished into thin air.
—Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2021
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For most people, the great Christian drama has ended, and all our players have vanished into thin air.
—Sasha Frere-Jones, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Nov. 2022
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True to his real-life version, video-game Julio Jones seemed to climb into thin air to grab the ball, and then dragged my defender briefly before breaking free for a touchdown.
—R.k. Russell, Men's Health, 22 June 2023
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And in the mornings, the sunrise looks for long minutes like a Monet painting, getting ever brighter until the colors melt into thin air.
—Rohan Preston, Star Tribune, 18 June 2021
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Then, before even reaching his super alien prime, Queefs vanished into thin air.
—Zak Jason, Wired, 18 July 2021
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But some of the water also ends up going elsewhere — vanishing into thin air.
—Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2023
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Do your valuables always seem to disappear into thin air?
—Douglas Helm, Popular Mechanics, 15 June 2022
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Just after the last sunset of the year, eight scientists at a secretive research station seem to vanish into thin air.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 12 Jan. 2024
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Prepare to relax as your concerns disappear into thin air with ease.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2023
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In other cases, the damsel simply vanishes into thin air.
—Matt Pearce, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Oct. 2021
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For all these breakthroughs, prewar gender norms did not evaporate into thin air.
—Elaine Weiss, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2019
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As the employees started to call security, the guest faded into thin air right in front of them — a feat all three women reported seeing at the same time.
—Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 11 Aug. 2023
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On their next three possessions, the Clippers turned the ball over, including passes into thin air, out of bounds and intended for a receiver who wasn’t standing there.
—Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2020
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Months after vanishing into thin air, their bodies were found buried in Daybell's backyard outside of Rexburg, Idaho.
—Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 1 Sep. 2021
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That sets off an obsessive hunt when Dellrayne appears to vanish into thin air off the top of a tall building after using some kind of mind control on Rourke’s law enforcement colleagues.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 May 2023
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Village women sharing stories of abuse vanish into thin air, leaving their abusers abandoned.
—The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
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Lee is also disarmingly delicate, like something that could slip away into thin air.
—Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2022
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In the end the prince marries another girl and the mermaid, unable to kill the prince with a magical dagger for which her sisters have traded their long hair, eventually dissolves into thin air — seriously.
—Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 24 May 2023
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These phrases catch on, are picked up by a host of people, and quickly become trite or dead as a doornail (itself a cliché) as their originality and cleverness vanish into thin air (another cliché).
—Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 July 2022
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The Lady Vanishes, in which a spinster literally disappears into thin air?
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2021
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