Vapours in a sentence

Cover the water while it's simmering to prevent the vapours from escaping.

Wayne Middleton, who has run Prestatyn Vapours at 125 High Street for nearly 10-and-a-half years, was left disappointed by Mr Davies’ comments.

I had just breathed the vapours for a few minutes and this poor woman has to be in the toxic environment all day.

It doesn’t really add much to extinguish the fire, but it certainly does suppress the vapours for a fire like this," he explained.

In my mind’s eye, while the vapours of my breath escaped like steam from an old engine spout, I was back in the Garter Lane auditorium, relishing the dialogue, savouring the set and enjoying being among my own.

Heat transfer from the combustion to the solid maintains the evolution of flammable vapours.

Holland (1933) suggested that the stone was hollow to allow intoxicating vapours breathed by the Oracle to channel through it.

In addition, exposure to the vapours gave match workers a severe necrosis of the bones of the jaw, the infamous " phossy jaw ".

In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England, women in bad humor were said to be afflicted by the spleen, or the vapours of the spleen.

Intoxicated by the vapours, the sibyl would fall into a trance, allowing Apollo to possess her spirit.

It decreases from east to west because monsoon wind moves from east to west and drained clouds in eastern parts takes less quantity of water vapours with them to western parts.

The liquefying of gases helped to establish that gases are the vapours of liquids possessing a very low boiling point and gave a more solid basis to the concept of molecular aggregation.

The next step is to find more about these trace vapours, including whether they are of natural or human origin.

Then he boiled it down to a paste, heated this paste to a high temperature, and led the vapours through water, where he hoped they would condense to gold.

The reaction products mostly volatilize into the overhead vapours, and recombine when these condense to form urea again, which contaminates the process condensate.

The spirit is triple distilled using a carterhead still, and the alcohol vapours are passed through a mesh/basket containing the ten botanicals, in order to gain flavour and aroma.

Under negative pressure, power for a vacuum source is needed and the reduced boiling points of the distillates requires that the condenser be run cooler to prevent distillate vapours being lost to the vacuum source.