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Example sentences for "dissipate"

Lexicographically close words:
dissimilitude; dissimulate; dissimulated; dissimulating; dissimulation; dissipated; dissipates; dissipating; dissipation; dissipations
  1. These clouds will dissipate and the splendour of the Faith will be shed with increasing radiance.

  2. Her words had little power to dissipate his extreme despondency.

  3. Her accent alone would have been sufficient to dissipate the presumptuous illusions of Maxence, had he had any.

  4. He wanted to believe it so keenly, in the weak reaction from the dread decision of the night, longing for something to cling to, that he hesitated, afraid to dissipate a fragile illusion by too brusque a question.

  5. Sometimes he thought it was a lack of confidence, a fear of having lived in illusions, that would dissipate before the rude shock of reality.

  6. You will do nothing by attempting too much," said Raphael; "you will only dissipate your strength.

  7. Race affinity is a potent force; why be in a hurry to dissipate it?

  8. His mother tried vainly to dissipate this recluse trend of thought and habit.

  9. I, passing my hand across my eyes to dissipate the silvery dimness of a suave, south-wind shower.

  10. I kissed them eagerly away, and sought to dissipate the partial gloom that was again clouding her brow.

  11. This sound seemed to dissipate the dreamy calm that had wrapped the soul of your mother into forgetfulness.

  12. The murderer himself has often tried thus to dissipate in the ashes of his victim, all traces of his awful crime, but Heaven will not have it so.

  13. Let us not be of the class unbearable who are ever trying to dissipate those lovely illusions that keep alive human complacency and make life endurable.

  14. Millard had endeavored to dissipate his thoughts in society and at places of amusement, only to discover that he could not revolve again in the orbit from which he had been diverted by the attraction of Phillida.

  15. These two Remedies gradually dissipate and remove the Tumour, if that may be effected without Suppuration.

  16. Consequences, when I have ordered it in these Cases; and it never fails to dissipate the Tooth-ach very speedily, which returns periodically at stated Days and Hours.

  17. The third trip in mid-winter was a very hard one, and at the end of a rainy night, when the faint streaks of dawn were beginning to dissipate the sluggish shadows, the Mare Nostrum arrived at the roadstead of Salonica.

  18. The following day his pensive reserve continued and she, well knowing the cause, tried to dissipate it with her words.

  19. You cannot forfeit her love as long as you preserve your integrity; and those scruples which no argument will dissipate will yield to reflection on an evil (as she will regard it) that cannot be remedied.

  20. I endeavoured to dissipate these apprehensions.

  21. If I should speak no longer of the island, but of the people, I could perhaps do something further still to dissipate the dread with which you and other strangers must regard us.

  22. He had put himself on the side of her conscience against his own cause; but he felt that he owed it to himself to dissipate uncertainty regarding her fate.

  23. Marie appeared to have summoned up her most agreeable mood, expressly for the purpose of consoling her cousin, or at least to dissipate her pain.

  24. He raised the light to endeavor to see what was going on in the cellar, but the darkness was too great; so faint a light could not dissipate it.

  25. Cursed, driven away by my father--for, after the falsehoods that I had told him to dissipate his suspicions, he would not believe me to be the victim of M.

  26. The devil and the burning fires are both the works of man, and none can put the fires out and dissipate the evil one, but man who made them both.

  27. An evil thought of any kind will do you harm; will dissipate your power.

  28. Is it not too true that we in general dissipate our youth in vanity, and, instead of employing all our faculties in the acquisition of what is good, make them the instruments of our degradation?

  29. Struggling as well as I could to reach him, I at least trod in the same track, and I was then enabled to pray with sincerity; to forgive, to hate no one, and dissipate every remaining doubt and gloom.

  30. But strong waters, which dissipate and ruine all, are this strange fire, and so Alchymists call them, and fire against nature externall fire, and other the like exterminatives.

  31. And although there be vertues and powers above that are destructive, and dissipate all base subjacent things.

  32. Once, perhaps, in two or three years, one of these devoted men will try single-handed to dissipate the dense dramatic fog that hangs over the theatre and the audience.

  33. The family mansion in Ireland contained everything that this world can supply; and Mr. Smart was resolved to dissipate that priceless store in gifts distributed to the much-esteemed company.

  34. This State of Mind does not only dissipate Sorrow, which would be extream without it, but enlarges Pleasures which would otherwise be contemptible.

  35. The exhibition was nothing short of a revelation, going far to dissipate the German belief--perhaps the English belief also--that America possesses no body of painters of the first rank.

  36. Prince Bülow now endeavoured to dissipate or correct the impression, at any rate, as regarded Algeciras.

  37. If this then be your treatment while the swords you wear are necessary for the defence of America, what have you to expect from peace, when your voice shall sink, and your strength dissipate by division?


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dissipate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    attenuate; blow; carouse; cease; consult; consume; debauch; decrease; dematerialize; depart; deplete; depreciate; devour; die; diffuse; dilute; disappear; disband; disintegrate; dispel; disperse; dissipate; dissolve; drain; dwindle; erode; evaporate; exhaust; exit; expend; fade; flee; fly; fritter; grovel; hide; lavish; leak; lift; lose; melt; pass; perish; rake; resolve; scatter; shrink; sink; spend; spread; squander; strew; swing; thin; vanish; volatilize; wallow; wanton; waste; wear; whore