How do you use the word "evaporate" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "evaporate" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "evaporate": These solvents, due to their volatility, evaporate into the atmosphere when used. Water will evaporate after it is boiled.

Evaporate Meaning

/ɪˈvæp.ə.ɹeɪt/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

verbTo transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state.

verbTo expel moisture from (usually by means of artificial heat), leaving the solid portion.

Sentence Examples

These solvents, due to their volatility, evaporate into the atmosphere when used.

Water will evaporate after it is boiled.

The puddles evaporate quickly in the heat of the sun.

CEFR Practice Quiz

The hot sun caused the puddle to ____ within just two hours.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

If you leave the container open, the perfume will eventually ____ into the air.

Word Origin & History

First attested in 1545, borrowed from Latin ēvapōrātus, the perfect passive participle of ēvapōrō (“to evaporate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). See also Middle English evaporaten (“to draw off humors or "spirits" as "vapor"”) and evaporen (“to draw off bodily fluid, an excess or toxic matter by converting it into "vapor"; to treat (a part of the body) by drawing off toxic matter converted into "vapor"”). Participial usage up until Early Modern English.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"When an ultrasonic beam is fired at the microcannons, the emulsion evaporates, expanding rapidly into gas. This creates enough force to push the nanobullets out at velocities reaching several metres per second." — 2016 February 1, Tom Whipple, “Microcannon firing nanobullets: the future of targeted medicine”, in The Times:

"McCoy’s team, including 66 researchers across four continents, found the salt and minerals left behind as water on Bennu, or its larger parent asteroid, evaporated. The minerals include sodium phosphates, carbonates, sulfates, chlorides and fluorides, some of which are necessary to the formation of life." — 2025 January 29, Ashley Strickland, “Historic asteroid sample reveals the ‘building blocks of life are in fact extraterrestrial in origin,’ scientists say”, in CNN:

"[M]y lord of Eſſex choſe to evaporate his thoughts in a Sonnet (being his common vvay) to be ſung before the Queen, […]" — c. 1635 (date written), Henry Wotton, “Of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex; and George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham: Some Observations by Way of Parallel in the Time of Their Estates of Favour”, in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ. Or, A Collection of Lives, Letters, Poems; […], London: […] Thomas Maxey, for R[ichard] Marriot, G[abriel] Bedel, and T[imothy] Garthwait, published 1651, →OCLC, page 8:

"To give moderate liberty for griefs to evaporate […] is a safe way." — 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Seditions and Troubles”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:

"The hosts initially looked like they lacked a spring in their step, but fears of further agony evaporated in the seventh minute with a goal of typical Arsenal quality." — 2011 March 2, Chris Whyatt, “Arsenal 5 – 0 Leyton Orient”, in BBC Sport:

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