DISSIPATE in a Sentence
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64 example sentences for DISSIPATE, such as:
1. The wind quickly dissipated the clouds.
2. The tension in the room had dissipated.
3. The mist quickly dissipated as the sun rose.
4. The heat gradually dissipates into the atmosphere.
5. These dissipations make against your chance of success.
2. The tension in the room had dissipated.
3. The mist quickly dissipated as the sun rose.
4. The heat gradually dissipates into the atmosphere.
5. These dissipations make against your chance of success.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of DISSIPATE
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dissipate
v. spend or expend wastefully; vanish by dispersion; drive away; disperse
Classic Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
1 But it is this gloom which appears to have taken so strong a hold of your mind that I wish to dissipate.
2 I was alone; none were near me to dissipate the gloom and relieve me from the sickening oppression of the most terrible reveries.
3 As my sickness quitted me, I was absorbed by a gloomy and black melancholy that nothing could dissipate.
4 What it was she did not know but she listened desperately, her eyes on his brown face, hoping to hear words that would dissipate her fears.
5 To dissipate in some trifling measure her abiding sense of the murkiness of human life she went to the "linhay" or lean-to shed, which formed the root-store of their dwelling and abutted on the fuelhouse.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure
6 For that matter, Pietukh might well have been ruined already, for hospitality can dissipate a fortune in three months as easily as it can in three years.
7 A breath of air which made its way in through the open pane, helped to dissipate the smell of the charcoal and to conceal the presence of the brazier.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE
8 It seemed to him that these distant splendors, far from dissipating his night, rendered it more funereal and more black.
9 If this letter seems to you of service in enlightening some minds and in dissipating some prejudices, you are at liberty to publish it, sir.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VI—THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES
Context Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VI—THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES
10 In other bills he had a lot of other names and done other wonderful things, like finding water and gold with a "divining-rod," "dissipating witch spells," and so on.
11 I foresaw," said Martin to Candide, "that your presents would soon be dissipated, and only make them the more miserable.
12 All passions except those of the heart are dissipated by revery.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY
13 There exists beneath society, we insist upon this point, and there will exist, until that day when ignorance shall be dissipated, the great cavern of evil.
14 He was calm and happy now beside Cosette; that which had, for a time, alarmed and troubled him had been dissipated; but for the last week or two, anxieties of another nature had come up.
15 Hardly had Jean Valjean reached the Rue de l'Homme Arme when his anxiety was lightened and by degrees dissipated.
Example Sentence:
1 He is a fine artist, but I fear he may dissipate his gifts if he keeps wasting his time playing games.
2 Her parents had started her on drum lessons at age ten to help dissipate some of her inexhaustible energy. But at fifteen, she fell into an emotional morass.
3 The wind quickly dissipated the clouds.
4 The volunteers' energy was dissipated by the enormous amounts of paperwork involved in the project.
5 The heat had to be dissipated by elaborate cooling systems.
6 The mist quickly dissipated as the sun rose.
7 The tension in the room had dissipated.
8 I have myself - I tell it you without parable - been a worldly, dissipated, restless man.
9 His neighbors denounced him as a wastrel who had dissipated his inheritance.
10 These dissipations make against your chance of success.
11 The heat gradually dissipates into the atmosphere.