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• The vapour drifted nebulously into the hall.From the entry nebulously
• Fifteen minutes later, leaving a vapour trail of kitchen smells, I hammered into Obterre.2011, Tim Moore, French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour de France, page 58. From the entry hammer
• Podson went on patting her reassuringly, relieved from administering first aid to an attack of the vapours.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 188. From the entry vapor
• It was the woman: soft whispering cloudlets, soft whispering vapour, whispering and vanishing.1916, James Joyce, chapter 3, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC. From the entry cloudlet
• The bubbling of vapour through the rosehead should not be too brisk, otherwise solution will be lost through the hole, G.2010, J. B. Yadav, Advanced Practical Physical Chemisty, page 46. From the entry rosehead
• Fleur leans back against the kitchen table, letting her face be licked by the tonguey vapour of her coffee-cup.2003, Toby Litt, Finding Myself, Penguin, published 2004, page 158. From the entry tonguey
• Then a film of chemical vapour seems to drift around the city, fudging every edge, gauzing every vista.1985, Jan Morris, From the Four Corners, published 1995. From the entry gauze
• I privately wished that the bears would win sometimes on these occasions; at least they wouldn't go vapouring about it afterwards.1904, “Saki”, ‘Reginald's Christmas Revel’, Reginald. From the entry vapor
• The black clouds of mercury vapour constantly billowing from the hatter's workshops and out into the streets must have been a horrifying sight.2015, Alison Matthews David, Fashion Victims: The Damages of Dress Past and Present, →ISBN, page 59. From the entry billow
• By night the carriage yard is illuminated by mercury vapour lamps on 50ft lattice steel towers remotely controlled from the diesel depot.1962 June, “The Eastern Region completes the Colchester scheme”, in Modern Railways, page 412. From the entry mercury-vapour lamp
• The engines of the long graceful yacht were turning over quietly, the exhaust bubbling glutinously, a thread of blue vapour rising astern.1954, Ian Fleming, “Terror By The Sea”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 233. From the entry glutinously
• The refrigerators allowed some of the atomised water to be stored on board as ice and the sublimators enabled the ice to be turned back into cloud vapour as required.2016, A. L. Smith, Weather to Order, page 9. From the entry sublimator
• When, finally, he left the pub, he discovered that a sea fret had blown in across the island, and the sand dunes were half hidden in drifting veils of vapour.2007, Pat Barker, Border Crossing: A Novel. From the entry sea fret
• Gleaming wanly through the whitish vapour that kept rising from the trotter’s body and flanks, they were like tiny fog-bells, and made the only sounds in a great winter silence.1918, Booth Tarkington, chapter 7, in The Magnificent Ambersons. From the entry wanly

Meaning of vapour

1. noun British standard spelling of vapor.

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How do you use vapour in a sentence?

Vapour is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The vapour drifted nebulously into the hall.”

What is a short sentence with vapour?

“The vapour drifted nebulously into the hall.”

What does vapour mean?

Vapour means british standard spelling of vapor.