How to Use vanish in a Sentence

vanish

verb
  • Dinosaurs vanished from the face of the earth millions of years ago.
  • The papers seem to have vanished into thin air.
  • The missing girl vanished without a trace a year ago.
  • Those who fail to reach the icy shores vanish into the ether.
    Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2023
  • One of the pieces of evidence was a note left in the tack room the night Jan vanished.
    Kyani Reid, NBC News, 30 July 2023
  • There was a small hole that vanished into darkness at the base of the wall.
    Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2024
  • When rescuers went back to find it, the bird had vanished.
    USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2024
  • That research seemed to vanish into the mists when Cox turned to the new law, SB 16.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Twinkies even vanished from store shelves at one point.
    By angus Berwick, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Anything but the biggest of big hits can vanish at any time.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2023
  • About 5,000 of the space rocks could vanish each year, new research suggests.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 13 Apr. 2024
  • With that, the cable broke, and Edward and the pallet of wood vanished into the darkness.
    John Hanc, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Aug. 2023
  • But two weeks later, the fruit of their efforts vanished.
    Steven Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Two young men of color vanished three months apart on the same road nearly two decades ago.
    Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The fluffy treat vanishing from the bread symbolizes the way Jesus vanished from the tomb.
    Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 13 Feb. 2024
  • In video recordings made from a distance, the Dali seems to vanish on the river, becoming one with the night.
    William Wan, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2024
  • By the end of the 1930s, his visions of writing the Great American Novel had vanished.
    Vince Guerrieri, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Eight innings of work to get and protect a lead can vanish in one or two pitches.
    Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 12 Sep. 2023
  • In Gaza’s latest lurch between calm and chaos, Asad saw his long-shot chance vanish.
    Hazem Balousha, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The oil and coffee stains completely vanished post-wash, and 95% of the foundation stain was gone.
    Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Lemire left her Orlando home in 2012 to meet a man at a restaurant in Kissimmee and vanished.
    Amanda Rabines, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Some of them had vanished in the mid 1990s, authorities said, according to the AP.
    Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2024
  • It's been just over three years since Suzanne Morphew vanished on Mother's Day.
    Erielle Reshef, ABC News, 15 May 2023
  • The insecurities, the hates, the fears, the prejudices outside vanish in a haze of camp.
    Penelope Green, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
  • The Chiefs’ coaching staff also started to see the mental mistakes vanish around that point.
    Jesse Newell, Kansas City Star, 19 Jan. 2024
  • MLB Network is the latest to vanish from the service with little warning.
    Chris Welch, The Verge, 1 Feb. 2023
  • That agreement never came to pass, and the hope for a two-state solution has steadily vanished.
    Shane Bauer, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Since then, Lil Tay has largely vanished from the internet.
    Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The rear seat folds and folds again to the point of nearly vanishing, leaving you with a high ceiling and a low, entirely flat load floor.
    Pete Lyons, Car and Driver, 26 Mar. 2023
  • So the skills slowly vanished, the love of crafting faded, another heritage was lost and the crafters grew grayer by the year.
    John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 25 Feb. 2024

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