How to Use into thin air in a Sentence

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  • There’s no way that my brother would just vanish into thin air like this.
    Melissa Alonso, CNN, 7 Sep. 2023
  • To many, the snow that seemed to vanish into thin air would go unnoticed.
    WIRED, 29 July 2023
  • Like socks and lip balm, beach towels have a way of disappearing into thin air.
    Southern Living, 7 Apr. 2021
  • The debt doesn’t disappear into thin air; it is transferred to others.
    WSJ, 6 June 2023
  • With the owner having vanished into thin air, the ship was sold and put back into service.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2023
  • In one building, your correspondent reached the top of a flight of stairs and stepped into thin air where a floor should have been.
    The Economist, 1 Aug. 2020
  • But this year Ross became a ghost, vanishing into thin air after games.
    Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Prepare to relax as your concerns disappear into thin air with ease.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2023
  • For all these breakthroughs, prewar gender norms did not evaporate into thin air.
    Elaine Weiss, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2019
  • Then, before even reaching his super alien prime, Queefs vanished into thin air.
    Zak Jason, Wired, 18 July 2021
  • This requires intense heat, which the lighter provides, causing some of the snow to vanish into thin air rather than drip.
    Ahmad Bajjey, CBS News, 30 Jan. 2026
  • But some of the water also ends up going elsewhere — vanishing into thin air.
    Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2023
  • The older girl disappears into thin air as the villain strikes her down and the younger one is left alone to finish the battle.
    Aisha Salaudeen, CNN, 1 Jan. 2021
  • By the time the boys arrived home and police were summoned, Jacob and the man had vanished into thin air.
    Johnny Dodd, Peoplemag, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Now there’s even more to cry about, as Lark has wiped Brady’s bank account clean and disappeared into thin air.
    Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 19 Dec. 2024
  • This, despite getting nothing from her subject save for breadcrumb trails that went cold, leads that dissolved into thin air.
    Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024
  • Those factors don’t just disappear into thin air because a tool can act autonomously.
    Seemant Sehgal, Forbes.com, 24 Feb. 2026
  • For most people, the great Christian drama has ended, and all our players have vanished into thin air.
    Sasha Frere-Jones, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Nov. 2022
  • In the end, both Cruz and Residente turn into dust that disappears into thin air.
    Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Lee is also disarmingly delicate, like something that could slip away into thin air.
    Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Somehow, a 12-foot-tall, full-body polar bear mount that had long presided over the second floor had vanished into thin air.
    Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Village women sharing stories of abuse vanish into thin air, leaving their abusers abandoned.
    The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
  • Atlas transparently cuts from one dancer to the next, which makes each one seemingly disappear into thin air.
    Beatrice Loayza, ARTnews.com, 6 Feb. 2025
  • This three-step combo should keep your nose corners hydrated and ensure all your efforts don’t just disappear into thin air.
    Jenna Ryu, SELF, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Sometimes the Florida man stories come into our lives and seem to disappear into thin air.
    Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 14 July 2026
  • Just after the last sunset of the year, eight scientists at a secretive research station seem to vanish into thin air.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Right as the 15-year-old stepped off the concrete and into thin air, a man in a light brown jacket wrapped his arms around Henick’s chest and pulled him back to safety.
    Caroline Tien, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Nov. 2021
  • As for Roche and Oz, the latter starts hearing voices again while Roche vanishes into thin air up in the mountains.
    Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2024
  • There is a great shot in this of a guy sort of doing an Elvis-ish, Risky Business–ish dance move and then disappearing into thin air.
    Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2025
  • And in the mornings, the sunrise looks for long minutes like a Monet painting, getting ever brighter until the colors melt into thin air.
    Rohan Preston, Star Tribune, 18 June 2021

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