vapor

When leaves release water vapor through their stomata, they start the process of evapotranspiration, which draws water up to the tallest part of a plant, like a beverage being sucked through a straw.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Essentially, cloud seeding speeds up the natural process of water vapor condensing inside of clouds.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Atmospheric rivers are relatively narrow corridors in the atmosphere that can carry enormous amounts of water vapor over long distances.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026

“Believe it or not, water vapor is actually the most potent and efficient greenhouse gas.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Parts of the surface are on fire, others emit evil- looking clouds of vapor.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

As the bark burned, tar vapors condensed against the cooler surface, leaving behind a sticky residue that could be collected.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

The argument they’re advancing, as I can tell, is constructed out of preemption vapors.

From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2026

Did he inhale too deeply the vapors of power?

From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026

It’s possible, Whelton said, that spraying copious amounts of water on the tank had effectively suppressed much of the toxic vapors and the airborne risk.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026

The dungeon was, most unusually, already full of vapors and odd smells.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

The Tribune must have more "kick," so it vapored about "a few daring New Yorkers" venturing into the "far West," discovering Chicago and telling their friends about it.

From Time Magazine Archive

For a time he stormed about the Moorish halls, and vapored about the bastions, and looked down fire and sword upon the palace of the captain-general.

From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 by Charles Herbert Sylvester

Ben and his brother eked out the profits of the dairy by occasional labor, and Ben had sometimes vapored in tap-rooms where he had better have held his tongue.

From The Great House by Stanley John Weyman

The suck of fresh air under pressure, vapored like steam, whirled around them in gusts, and the water oozed and rippled beside 109 their feet as they went forward.

From The Plunderer by Douglas Duer

He raged and vapored and threatened on the floor of the House.

From A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III by Justin McCarthy

The press was busy vaporing upon the significance of a de Valera free to roam the Free State.

From Time Magazine Archive

Apparently the only contribution Fiver could make was this beetle-spirited vaporing.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

But we were the weakest when Slavery made us so loud-mouthed and vaporing; we shall be strongest when the cause of our boasting has disappeared.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 by Various

“See here, I don’t want to take advantage of your beastly temper, but if you are really bent on selling the place, and not vaporing as usual, I’m open to make you an offer.”

From Lorimer of the Northwest by Alfred James Dewey

They became very insolent and boastful, and would sharpen their knives and tomahawks upon the door-sills of the colonists, vaporing in mysterious phrase of the great deeds they were about to perform.

From King Philip Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott