How to Use dissipate in a Sentence
dissipate
verb- The fog should dissipate soon.
- The morning sun dissipated the fog.
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Through Tonight: The few clouds of the day will tend to dissipate.
—Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2021
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That gives the storm enough time to move away or dissipate.
—Staff Reports, The Arizona Republic, 31 Aug. 2023
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That gives the storm enough time to move away or dissipate.
—Staff Reports, The Arizona Republic, 17 Aug. 2024
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That gives the storm enough time to move away or dissipate.
—Staff Reports, The Arizona Republic, 6 Aug. 2024
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Left long enough, the foam would vanish, the gas would dissipate and the stout would go still and flat.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 16 Apr. 2018
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Once that is in the story, your score starts to dissipate.
—Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 6 June 2023
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So let the stress wash over you and dissipate like the sweet steam off a fresh mug of hot chocolate.
—CNN Underscored, 19 Dec. 2020
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Through Tonight: Any clouds of the day tend to dissipate with sunset.
—Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2021
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Showers dissipate in the evening with overnight lows in the mid-to-upper 60s.
—David Streit, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2022
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Heat dome could linger for two weeks The heat dome won't dissipate soon.
—John Bacon, USA Today, 24 July 2025
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The clock strikes midnight, and the magic dissipates into the night.
—Dusty Parnell, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
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As the day wears on, clouds part but do not fully dissipate as highs reach the low 40s.
—David Streit, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
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And the flooding is getting worse as the storm dissipates.
—Cady Drell, Marie Claire, 18 Sep. 2018
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But that thought dissipated as the days passed with no sign of Tyler.
—Veronica Fulton, NBC News, 23 Oct. 2024
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But as soon as the men start to explain themselves, the threat dissipates.
—Margaret Gray, latimes.com, 8 June 2018
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It’s the kind of thing that doesn’t dissipate in two or three days after the event happens.
—Adam Epstein, Quartz, 2 June 2021
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The itch to keep climbing didn’t seem to dissipate once in Congress.
—Ben Terris, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2023
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Since vinyl chloride in the air breaks down and dissipates in a day or two, it would not be found in air now.
—Jill Neimark, STAT, 21 Feb. 2023
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But, as the heat dissipates, the same cannot be said for the humidity.
—Jack Albright, jsonline.com, 24 July 2025
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These are good tools to get a reading of the wind around you, but the powder quickly dissipates.
—Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 2 Dec. 2019
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The heat is much more concentrated at the top, along its veins and in its seeds, but dissipates at the tip.
—Pati Jinich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2024
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Hopefully, the daily chaos will dissipate, the need to yell at the TV will ebb.
—Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 9 Nov. 2020
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As the crowd began to dissipate, the sisters went inside to pray.
—Chris Kenning, The Courier-Journal, 24 Dec. 2019
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Four days later, the cloud of smoke has not yet begun to dissipate.
—Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 9 Jan. 2023
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If there’s much wind shear present, the low-pressure system dissipates, blown apart by the wind.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 26 June 2019
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Through tonight: Clouds tend to dissipate with loss of sunshine.
—Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
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When the week rolled around and the smell didn’t dissipate, the district pivoted and evacuated the building.
—Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 8 Aug. 2025
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Whatever awkwardness there was quickly dissipated once Coleman got on campus and met the staff.
—Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Aug. 2025
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