Sentence examples for vanished thing from inspiring English sources

Mainly Ceefax was that vanished thing, a voice of quiet authority: entirely straight, irreproachably trustworthy, even its name – "see facts" – devoid of all frippery.

There is a debt to Hans Magnus Enzensberger, in the reportorial interrogation of vanished things, that would remain true of all of Sebald's work.

"Oxford United beat Shrewsbury 6-0 in the 1995-96 season with six headers – can this total be bettered?" "The plastic bench or perspex dugout seems to be a vanishing thing in 'modern football,'" air quotes Padraig Stapleton.

But it is also my suspicion that, like so many vanishing things in French cooking, the seven-hour recipe was actually made for harder sheep in tougher times.

Smash Hits and Top of the Pops vanished - things once thought immutable.

That's a fancy way of saying that in the last 30 days, the skies broke open, the ground vanished, and things changed.

Around here, people made sure the whole thing vanished from the headlines quickly".

Eventually, however, the thing vanished from the discussion, and I thought we'd hear no more about it.

Luxury items like frosted cake and meat cut from the carcass of a once-living thing vanished.

The thing vanished from McDormand's side at the Governors Ball while she "had set it down and was chatting," Buckley reports.

Once their user vanishes, the things should vanish, too.