How to Use ether in a Sentence
ether
noun- The balloon disappeared into the ether.
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In the last three months, ether is down 25%.
—Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 12 Jan. 2026
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Lazy or not, the soufflé was as light as ether just the same.
—Samin Nosrat, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2018
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The huffing of the vial of ether — was that always in the scene?
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2025
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Will all this drama play out face-to-face now, or fade into the ether?
—Steve Rushin, SI.com, 10 Oct. 2017
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All that time was passing, and there was this thing floating there in the ether.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2021
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That could be enough to bring you out from under the romantic ether.
—Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2019
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More important are the ones and zeroes, the dance of the ether.
—Mark Ewing, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021
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Owens had a client pass away with half a million dollars in bitcoin and ether.
—Cheryl Winokur Munk, CNBC, 6 Dec. 2025
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Only the essence of their existence now floats around in the ethers of our mind.
—Jerry Davich, Post-Tribune, 19 May 2017
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His notebooks and sketchpads brim over with words and phrases pulled out of the ether.
—Mark Rozzo, Vanities, 30 May 2018
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Meanwhile, Vic buys ethers, potions, elixirs, and phoenix downs.
—Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
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Is Helmut going to turn into some sort of ether?
—Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 5 Feb. 2026
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Both bitcoin and ether were down more than 1% hours after the upgrade went live.
—Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2022
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But Krygier doesn't mind if the postcard's been lost in the ether.
—CNN, 16 Apr. 2021
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Then the band crackled to life, a voice riding a high-frequency wave out of the ether.
—Chase Brush, Outside Online, 14 Mar. 2021
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There must have been something in the creative ether in 2006.
—Lisa De Los Reyes, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2026
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With regards to making this record, there are just so many things that are floating around all of us in the ether.
—Ilana Kaplan, Glamour, 5 July 2017
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The rise in ether flushed out $64 million in short bets in the same period.
—Sarah Min,john Melloy,lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 7 Apr. 2026
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The surgeon turns to alcohol instead of ether when the darkness is too much.
—Lincee Ray, EW.com, 25 Apr. 2022
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Each is a replica of the last, a humming absence spinning into the ether.
—Sadia Hassan, Longreads, 13 July 2018
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So for the last year, the value of graphics cards has been largely driven by the value of ether.
—Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 23 July 2018
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Just 175 years ago, doctors used ether anesthesia for the first time.
—Caitlin Dwyer, Longreads, 25 July 2019
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That meant Earth must be moving with respect to the stationary ether.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 3 July 2026
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So a lot of things kind of came to me having known the show, but also out in the ether or being able to absorb it.
—Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 June 2022
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But phone calls dissolve into the ether along with the strings of information that bind them to the world.
—Luc Sante, The New York Review of Books, 24 Mar. 2020
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Then the pandemic hit, and the team left our space-time to work in the digital ether of Zoom.
—Charlie Wood, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2024
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The rally in ether is tied to the recent burst of activity on the network.
—Paul Vigna, WSJ, 3 May 2021
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Bitcoin is hovering under the flat line for the month, while ether is still up 15%.
—Tanaya MacHeel, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2025
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Physicists invented ether as a medium through which light waves traveled.
—Dipangkar Dutta, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
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