How to Use vapor trail in a Sentence

vapor trail

noun

• In 2020, Rublev was attached to a vapor trail from the start.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2021
• McAvoy chased in his vapor trail, but Marino finished with a backhand tuck for the Pens’ first lead of the night.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2019
• And in less than five minutes, that pillar crash landed in the vapor trail left by Saquon Barkley's feet.
  — Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 22 Oct. 2017
• One of the league’s fastest skaters, DeBrusk caught up with the puck around the defensive blue line and raced in for his shot off the rush, with Forsling chasing in his vapor trail.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Oct. 2022
• Nanook knows that the modern world exists; in fact, one of the film’s most vivid shots has him flat on his back in the snow watching jet airplane vapor trails in the sky.
  — Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2019
• Patterson flung open the doors, welcoming the publicity that rode on the vapor trail of a win against a blue-blood program.
  — Andy Staples, SI.com, 4 Oct. 2017
• Even when Westbrook left opponents in his vapor trail, the Thunder harped on him to take the extra dribble and finish higher off the glass.
  — Lee Jenkins, SI.com, 19 Feb. 2018
• The awesome spectacle and the long, lingering vapor trail brought people outside or to their windows to see what happened—and that’s when the shock wave touched down.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 15 Feb. 2023
• The painter’s short, incandescent career left a vapor trail across the sky of American Art that glowed brightly and faded quickly.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2021
• Parise, who badly misread the attack, suddenly was chasing in Krug’s vapor trail.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Nov. 2019
• Subsequent bubbles typically formed near the same spots, forming a single vapor trail that served to push the droplet in a preferred direction.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 21 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 15 Aug 2024