How to Use ether in a Sentence

ether

noun
  • The balloon disappeared into the ether.
  • Lazy or not, the soufflé was as light as ether just the same.
    Samin Nosrat, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2018
  • More important are the ones and zeroes, the dance of the ether.
    Mark Ewing, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Bitcoin is built on the bitcoin blockchain and ether is built on the ethereum blockchain.
    CBS News, 22 Apr. 2022
  • The worst-kept secret on the Southside is now out and in the ether.
    Evan Dudley, al, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Only the essence of their existence now floats around in the ethers of our mind.
    Jerry Davich, Post-Tribune, 19 May 2017
  • The change should be seamless for people who hold ether.
    Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The tweets go out into the ether and dissipate like fog.
    Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 14 Dec. 2019
  • All that time was passing, and there was this thing floating there in the ether.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Just a whiff of ether is enough to make one feel drowsy, and a little more can knock you out.
    Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2013
  • His notebooks and sketchpads brim over with words and phrases pulled out of the ether.
    Mark Rozzo, Vanities, 30 May 2018
  • That could be enough to bring you out from under the romantic ether.
    Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2019
  • The soldier would be put to sleep with chloroform or ether.
    Michael E. Ruane, ajc, 19 June 2018
  • Or type into that same tiny machine and send written words across the ether?
    Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • The rally in ether is tied to the recent burst of activity on the network.
    Paul Vigna, WSJ, 3 May 2021
  • 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
  • Bitcoin is built on the, well, bitcoin blockchain; ether is built on the ethereum blockchain.
    Thalia Beaty, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Apr. 2022
  • There's a long list that's seeped out into the ether: Don't tax the wealthy.
    Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 21 Oct. 2021
  • The surgeon turns to alcohol instead of ether when the darkness is too much.
    Lincee Ray, EW.com, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Take ether, the in-house currency for the Ethereum network.
    Paul Vigna, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2018
  • Then the band crackled to life, a voice riding a high-frequency wave out of the ether.
    Chase Brush, Outside Online, 14 Mar. 2021
  • Will all this drama play out face-to-face now, or fade into the ether?
    Steve Rushin, SI.com, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Each is a replica of the last, a humming absence spinning into the ether.
    Sadia Hassan, Longreads, 13 July 2018
  • 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
  • Creative people are simply the conduits for what comes out of the creative ether.
    Barry Samaha, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • The name ethereum might ring a bell because hackers stole millions of dollars worth of ether last year.
    Lily Katz, Bloomberg.com, 31 May 2017
  • The first come across our feeds only to quickly disappear into the ether.
    Jack Moore, GQ, 1 Sep. 2017
  • The news rippled across crypto markets, causing the prices of bitcoin and ether to plunge.
    David Yaffe-Bellany, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2022

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