Sentence examples for evaporating like from inspiring English sources

They never reach the ground, evaporating like a mirage while still in the air.

When I slipped over to the South Bank the other night, to the National Theater, I was treated to the spectacle of the American dream evaporating like a mirage in the desert, or Las Vegas, to be exact.

At a stroke, whole generations of middle-aged Tory men can feel dreams of high office evaporating like the fumes from a consoling tumbler (or two) of late-night Scotch.

Ron Dayne's career is evaporating like an ice cube on a sidewalk: Seventeen carries in the last three games, an average of about eight carries per game this season, a stunning descent for a running back drafted in the first round by a team that has relied throughout its history on a strong rushing attack.

At times it is as though they are playing games, hovering in the distance, then beside your ear for a moment, then gone again, evaporating like the water that nourishes this cloud forest and the town at its edge.

The glistening future that we had all believed we were working toward, and that we could offer as a promise to our children, appears to be evaporating like a shimmering mirage in the hot desert sun.

Just before this new position, Huck, Tom concluded, his laughter evaporating like mid-morning dew, had just returned from Kansas.

Then, as the atoms heated, the most energetic ones "evaporated" like steam from hot soup to keep the other ones cool, the researchers report online this week in Nature.

But that image has evaporated, like a fleeting desert mirage.

The last four years evaporated like a vaguely disturbing erotic dream.

Once everything became clear, Gatsby's life evaporated like smoke".