Vapors in a sentence

All week long, something had been giving him the vapors.

Chlorine bleach, when mixed with almost anything other than water, can release toxic vapors.

My arm exuded mephitic vapors.

Now, in this small ecosystem tucked between the city and the cornfields, wounded sparrows died and putrefied, the caterpillars secreted smelly vapors, and the short-tailed shrews and meadow voles dropped feces.

They remove toxic vapors and chemicals like formaldehyde and carbon monoxide through their leaves and roots.

Or if it dissolved in the water, air is pumped into the groundwater, causing the contamination to volatilize, so that the vapors can be captured and extracted via another well.

Other mitigation measures include installing a high fence around the site; washing trucks before they exit the lot; and sprays, foams, and what is known as a misting system would be used to suppress odors, vapors, and particulate matter.

Short-term exposure to metallic mercury vapors — such as from spills — can cause lung damage, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, increased blood pressure and heart rate, skin rashes, and eye irritation.

The dog walker called 911 and said the man looked like he could possibly be homeless, and he appeared to have been inhaling vapors based on the aerosol can in his bag.

The vapors can be dangerous up to 200 feet and are flammable.

The vapors inhaled through e-cigarettes do not contain the carcinogens created by burning tobacco.

To get Legionnaires’ disease or Pontiac fever, “you have to breathe in Legionella in aerosolized water, meaning small droplets like mists or vapors,” he said.

Even if the vapors are not destroying the lungs of everyone involved, subjecting others to breathing in the fumes is noxious.

These enclosed spaces get much hotter than the atmosphere outside the aircraft, so when exhaust vapors escape, they freeze in midair.

While it seems the woman and her mechanic may have breathed in vapors from carbon monoxide, which can easily kill you, a grandmother in the same city recently died because she couldn’t get the she depended on to breathe.

Also, vapors obey the barometric formula in a gravitational field just as conventional atmospheric gases do.

A naphtha fueled lighter should also be allowed to burn a few seconds to get rid of stray naphtha vapors that could give a foul taste to the smoke.

As the arterial blood was created 'sooty' vapors were created and passed to the lungs also via the pulmonary artery to be exhaled.

Bergman informed Scheele that the saltpeter he had purchased from Scheele's employer, after long heating, produced red vapors (now known to be nitrogen dioxide) when it came into contact with acetic acid.

Broad (2007) demonstrates that a French photograph of the excavated interior of the temple clearly depicts a springlike pool as well as a number of small vertical fissures, indicating numerous pathways by which vapors could enter the base of the temple.