How to Use dissipate in a Sentence

dissipate

verb

• The fog should dissipate soon.
• The morning sun dissipated the fog.
• Through Tonight: The few clouds of the day will tend to dissipate.
  — Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2021
• That gives the storm enough time to move away or dissipate.
  — Staff Reports, The Arizona Republic, 31 Aug. 2023
• That gives the storm enough time to move away or dissipate.
  — Staff Reports, The Arizona Republic, 17 Aug. 2024
• That gives the storm enough time to move away or dissipate.
  — Staff Reports, The Arizona Republic, 6 Aug. 2024
• That gives the storm enough time to move away or dissipate.
  — Julie Mendes, AZCentral.com, 27 Aug. 2025
• 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
• Once that is in the story, your score starts to dissipate.
  — Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 6 June 2023
• 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
• Through Tonight: Any clouds of the day tend to dissipate with sunset.
  — Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2021
• Showers dissipate in the evening with overnight lows in the mid-to-upper 60s.
  — David Streit, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2022
• Heat dome could linger for two weeks The heat dome won't dissipate soon.
  — John Bacon, USA Today, 24 July 2025
• The clock strikes midnight, and the magic dissipates into the night.
  — Dusty Parnell, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
• 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
• And the flooding is getting worse as the storm dissipates.
  — Cady Drell, Marie Claire, 18 Sep. 2018
• But that thought dissipated as the days passed with no sign of Tyler.
  — Veronica Fulton, NBC News, 23 Oct. 2024
• But as soon as the men start to explain themselves, the threat dissipates.
  — Margaret Gray, latimes.com, 8 June 2018
• 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
• The itch to keep climbing didn’t seem to dissipate once in Congress.
  — Ben Terris, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2023
• 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
• But, as the heat dissipates, the same cannot be said for the humidity.
  — Jack Albright, jsonline.com, 24 July 2025
• 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
• 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
• Hopefully, the daily chaos will dissipate, the need to yell at the TV will ebb.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 9 Nov. 2020
• As the crowd began to dissipate, the sisters went inside to pray.
  — Chris Kenning, The Courier-Journal, 24 Dec. 2019
• Four days later, the cloud of smoke has not yet begun to dissipate.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 9 Jan. 2023
• If there’s much wind shear present, the low-pressure system dissipates, blown apart by the wind.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 26 June 2019
• Through tonight: Clouds tend to dissipate with loss of sunshine.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
• Once the job went away, all my stress dissipated and my levels returned to normal.
  — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 17 Aug. 2025