How To Use Vanished In A Sentence

He vanished from the scene, to materialize presently in front of the door.
Officers had been shown a dirty white T-shirt which he said he had worn on the day his girlfriend vanished.
The awkwardness between them soon vanished when they began laughing and mocking the poorly produced film.
The last Mariposa lily vanished from the burnt grasses as the California Indian summer dreamed itself out in purple mists on the windless air. CHAPTER XXXVI
We all wondered how she could have vanished into thin air. The Sun

There was a brief flare of white light, and the Goddess vanished, leaving only a smattering of loose tinsel behind.
A few months later, the guy who owned and operated the company upped and vanished to avoid a legion of creditors, and has not been seen since.
A racer from Team Whole Foods Market wrenched her ankle immediately and vanished in the cloud of dust raised by the stampede.
The playful flirtation vanished from the dark woman's face in a flash and she straightened suddenly, firing a steel - cold glance my way.
Despite the skill with which Jellicoe and Beatty had enmeshed the High Seas Fleet, Iron Duke had fired only nine salvos when Scheer turned his ships around and vanished into the mist. Castles of Steel
The hard-liners have not vanished, and the political battles ahead will be intense.
With Charles II. the embroidered gloves seem to have vanished along with the stumpwork pictures, of which more anon. Chats on Old Lace and Needlework
Their son watched helplessly as they vanished beneath the waves.
Within days, all our persistent coughs and runny noses have vanished. Times, Sunday Times
In March this year he was released from jail then vanished again. The Sun
But at the time, all thoughts of tempo totally vanished as the senses encountered a rare flux of movement. Times, Sunday Times
The problem could arise if this population suddenly vanished, as it has done in the past due to myxomatosis.
The liver necrosis vanished, her color came back, and she started to put on weight. TROPIC OF NIGHT
It was only after these fish vanished from the ecosystem that mammals and cartilaginous fish such as manta rays, basking sharks, whale sharks began to adapt to that ecological role. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
While poster art continued to prosper, the ornate details of Art Nouveau vanished.
The moth had vanished by this point. Times, Sunday Times
But… he gave each of them a ‘shot’ of morphia, whereupon all traces of fatigue vanished.
There are fears the same animal killed a man who vanished in the area days earlier. The Sun
What's more, researchers found evidence to suggest that a subspecies called the Nubian wild ass, presumed vanished late in the 20th century, is not only a direct ancestor of the donkey - it may still exist. University of Florida News
The mitraille vanished in shapelessness; the bombs plunged into it; bullets only succeeded in making holes in it; what was the use of cannonading chaos? and the regiments, accustomed to the fiercest visions of war, gazed with uneasy eyes on that species of redoubt, a wild beast in its boar-like bristling and a mountain by its enormous size. Les Miserables
Even her rescuer in the shell suit and bad perm had vanished. TICKLED PINK
The grin vanished like magic, her whole body stiffening in antipathy as her eyes locked with fathomless brown ones.
One moment he was standing behind me, the next he had vanished in a puff of smoke.
The temple ruins are a distant reminder of a vanished empire.
When she regained her balance and looked around he - if indeed it had been he - had vanished.
It is now 260 days since the aircraft vanished. Times, Sunday Times
These are the questions that plague Coronilla and thousands of others whose relatives from across Latin America have vanished in recent years as lawlessness prevails in large swaths of Mexico. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Giant club moss trees vanished overnight to be replaced by rather weedy fern vegetation. Times, Sunday Times
Sun in 1991 was free, but then vanished again. The Sun
Not only have the top-boots and breeches vanished from the costume of innkeepers, but also the long, parti-coloured waistcoat, and the birds'-eye fogle round their necks. Can You Forgive Her?
The story was simple to him: good prospects that warranted the starting of the tunnel into the sidehill; the three months 'work and the getting short of money; the lay-off while the men went away and got jobs; then the return and a new stretch of work, with the "pay" ever luring and ever receding into the mountain, until, after years of hope, the men had given up and vanished. Chapter IX
Another suggestive piece of evidence is comparison with dogs that remain on the other side of the long vanished Asia-North America land connection.
They were given safe passage and had since vanished. Times, Sunday Times
They cut the mast and sails loose and watched as it vanished into the depths below.
The gaiety with which they had set out had somehow vanished; and yet there was no enmity or malice between them.
Not only had they appeared mysteriously, but the caterpillars vanished equally suddenly.
The turtle waddled down the bank of the slough, out onto a rotten railroad tie through an obstacle course of brambles and beer cans, and, to my surprise, vanished with a wet slap, proving that this water was still alive.
The light overtook them, passed through the car and vanished - and Gill and his friend kept right on driving!
We all wondered how she could have vanished into thin air. The Sun
Nearly more than half the town's children vanished, including every one of the accusers.
Prof. Bluma Goldstein of California University, who grew up as a child of an aguna, vividly describes in Enforced Marginality, the "galeriye fun farshvundene mener - Gallery of Vanished Husbands" which appeared several times weekly for decades in the New York-based Jewish newspaper The Forward - Forverts. JPost.com - Front Page
The great mobs which had thronged the streets during the night had vanished. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
One moment he was standing behind me, the next he had vanished in a puff of smoke.
They moved 350 miles to Cornwall where the collie cross vanished and spent all their spare time trying to track her down. The Sun
I think that Bob Carr is using you to score political points and any vestigial respect I felt for him has vanished in a puff of political posturing.
They have almost all vanished again by December, and no one knows where they have gone. Times, Sunday Times
The voice and face of his dearest friend and advisor vanished, and Roy proceeded to remove his paint-bedaubed smock and brush his hair, so as to present a somewhat better appearance when the professor arrived. "The Golden Girl of Munan" by Harl Vincent, part 1
All of this vanished like mist before a strong wind when war broke out and all thoughts of international proletarian solidarity went out of the window.
Some, such as the wryneck, ceased to breed in East Anglia; others, notably the stonechat, all but vanished.
Now the vanished figure is the chief investigator in that slaying, Pablo Chapa Bezanilla.
You hear a loud screech and look up, but they fly so fast that they have already vanished. Times, Sunday Times
Since then, however, the very "ruines" have vanished; the palms have had time to grow; and modern Cairo has doubtless absorbed all the building material that remained from the middle ages. A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
The shine had gone from his eyes and his grin had vanished. Times, Sunday Times
When bodyboards came along in the form of the original Morey Boogie, mats vanished.
Do you think the notion that it's beneath the dignity of a serious writer to cater for something like television has simply vanished?
It shot into the charts at number 10, unheard of in those days, but stalled well short of the expected number 1 slot and vanished from the charts in six weeks flat.
the simple security of traditional assumptions has vanished
All he knew is that his father's money had mysteriously disappeared, vanished into thin air for all he knew.
The butler suavely tries to inform her; the housekeeper removed the white crotcheted scarfs and things from the gilded chairs, and I am sure Mrs. Denning had a heartache about their loss; but she saw that they had also vanished from The Man Between, an International Romance
And when these had vanished in the distance Graham heard a peewit wailing close at hand. When the Sleeper Wakes
Her old adulator, also, vanished from public places, while her young admirer and his father hovered about in them as usual, but spiritless, comfortless, and as if in the same search as himself. Camilla
It seemed as if a sudden flash of anger went over him, like the flash that glides along the glutinous stem of the fraxinella, when you touch it with a candle; the next moment it had utterly vanished, and was forgotten as if it had never been. Malbone: an Oldport romance
But bipedalism in birds is a highly specialized form of bipedal motion; the large tails of birds' ancestors, which in crocodilians still anchor the leg muscles, have mostly vanished in birds.
The kid smiled and vanished, leaving a befuddled scientist to wonder if he'd begun hallucinating.
All the cynicism about his abilities, all the sniping about his wages have vanished. The Sun
He seems to have vanished without trace.
The two enormous generators, the blackness of the protonic shield, and the great artificial matter generator, throwing an inner shield impervious to the cosmics Thett gave off as it vanished, both were whining. Invaders from the Infinite
My glasses seem to have vanished.
This was Goat Island, created of silts and clays that had originally lain on the bottom of the vanished Lake Tonawanda.
The next morning, the salt had apparently vanished, but, of course, when Svetaketu sipped the water he found that the salt permeated the whole beakerful of liquid, even though it could not be seen. Buddha
Any lingering aura of weapons testing seemed to have vanished from the word bikini by the 1960s, when what was left of Bikini Atoll itself was largely forgotten. The English Is Coming!
He left his coffee and blondie on top of the display case, untasted, and vanished into the crowd.
After several years of decline, they have vanished almost completely in the waters around Orkney and Shetland.
Her sunny smile vanished as she read the letter.
But there was no sign of technical problems before the aircraft vanished from screens. The Sun
When Allen vanished after he was released Findlay was unsurprised. LOST SUMMER
The 22-year-old lost her way without a torch and vanished over the edge as she returned from the public loos. The Sun
Local men and women have recorded memories of their vanished working lives in the cutlery and silver trades and today's silversmiths and jewellers from the region are celebrated too.
Where did we queue to buy the commemorative crown pieces, the silver five-bobs that suddenly made sense of the term "half-crown", of which they were the vanished ancestors? My memories of the Festival of Britain? 'Oh, not another queue' | Ian Jack
All the cynicism about his abilities, all the sniping about his wages have vanished. The Sun
Anne vanished from outside her home last Wednesday.
The bird vanished in a flash of blue.
After they vanished, the basement was still full of junk metal and glass.
The mother of one of the runaway teenage Hampshire sweethearts has herself vanished, the Daily Echo can reveal.
A note in one of Leonardo's manuscripts speaks of twenty-four Roman subjects, probably small decorative groups in _camaieu_, painted on the vaulting of these rooms, and gives the exact cost of the blue, gold, and enamel employed, but all trace of these decorations has vanished. Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497
In March this year he was released from jail then vanished again. The Sun
It made short purring sounds, mixed with squeaks, then it vanished.
He had vanished from work on July 21 last year leaving his jacket on the back of his chair, his name tag on the desk and his car locked up in his consultant's parking bay.
The blue matter floated in the air for a moment, then it dissipated and vanished.
Shadows and penumbras were instantaneously formed from the myriad of trees and hills that he surveyed through the window, and just as quickly vanished.
The instant I let go, it darted into the depths and vanished, as if nothing had happened.
Misha darted away into the courtyard, and into the carriage, waved his cap over his head, hallooed, — the monstrous coachman leered at him over his beard, the greys dashed off, and all vanished! A Desperate Character
Her reply began with a hint of forlornness that vanished with her smile, as she warned: CHAPTER VII
They cut the mast and sails loose and watched as it vanished into the depths below.
Her long locks have vanished and she's got a new choppy bob.
She appeared amongst her companions, and vanished from them, with a degree of rapidity which was inconceivable and hedges, treillage, or such like obstructions, were surmounted by her in a manner which the most vigilant eye could not detect; for, after being observed on the side of the barrier at one instant, in another she was beheld close beside the spectator. Anne of Geierstein
It must have existed at some point, but now it's vanished, gone, disappeared, forever.
So, amid glitter of illuminated streets and Champs Elysees, and crackle of fireworks and glad deray, has the first National Assembly vanished; dissolving, as they well say, into blank Time; and is no more. The French Revolution
But after the sale she warned that the party vibe had not entirely vanished. Times, Sunday Times
Groves of rigging were about the chains; and there, peering from behind a great stay, like an Indian from behind a hemlock, a Spanish sailor, a marlingspike in his hand, was seen, who made what seemed an imperfect gesture towards the balcony, but immediately as if alarmed by some advancing step along the deck within, vanished into the recesses of the hempen forest, like a poacher. The Piazza Tales
Any flicker of uncertainty about riding such a young thoroughbred vanished.
These masses have not vanished without a trace. A Short Guide to Writing About History
It and its mistress vanished into the dark to her car and a little unknown nook somewhere. Somewhere East of Life
The blue nimbus soon engulfed them and vanished from view.
One of the world's smelliest tourist attractions has vanished, creating a mystery that is puzzling animal experts. Times, Sunday Times
The contorted moonlet dropped away, dwindled, vanished. I Don’t Understand ?
The insurgents who were there have vanished, leaving improvised explosive devices buried everywhere.
And any social stigma once associated with home-swapping as a déclassé activity has long since vanished.
The butler suavely tries to inform her; the housekeeper removed the white crotcheted scarfs and things from the gilded chairs, and I am sure Mrs. Denning had a heartache about their loss; but she saw that they had also vanished from Dora's parlor, so she took the hint, and accepted the lesson. The Man Between: An International Romance
The prospective business partners suddenly vanished without trace. Times, Sunday Times
it vanished into the night
Wheeler wrapped them in lichen he'd picked around camp ( "There must be iodine and iron in those plants!"), and the sores vanished. A MAN SENT FROM GOD
Though square-rigged sailing ships have just about vanished from our oceans, they have left us present-day sailors with a racial memory of grandeur, power, and beauty.
The spaceman vanished into an inner room and reappeared in a moment lugging a plastic case called a space pack, or "spack" for short. Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet
But by the time British police got a European arrest warrant he had vanished again. The Sun
Were Cygnus XR - 1 a neutron star, rather than a black hole, the pulses would have been brighter as the gas globules crashed onto the dense core, but instead they simply vanished.
Then it zipped away at what seemed like incredible speed and vanished from view.
The lurid coppery glow had vanished, and the sky thickened and lowered until the darkness was as that of a late twilight. A LITTLE ACCOUNTWITH SWITHIN HALL
We know surprisingly little about vanished civilizations whose majesty and whose ultimate demise were closely linked to liberties they took with water.
By the time the accident investigator arrives on the scene, however, the ice has melted and the evidence has vanished.
A nation of menfolk must weep at the vanished opportunity. Times, Sunday Times
The temple ruins are a distant reminder of a vanished empire.
My brain froze, the shrill of cicada faded, and my senses vanished. Osamu Shimomura - Autobiography
Alberti mentions only one post-classical work of art - Giotto's Navicella mosaic - but he cites many classical literary sources describing vanished works.
Suddenly, the field turned a blinding white, and vanished, leaving nothing there.
It stood in front of me for a few seconds and then vanished. The Sun
But by the time British police got a European arrest warrant he had vanished again. The Sun
Remnants of teaching monasteries, stupas, temples and shrines present a haunting spectacle of lost grandeur and of a vanished civilisation - that of Buddhism in India.
Suddenly he has vanished from the magazine covers. The Sun
The happy village was gone -- razed to the very foundations -- the demesne was a solitude -- the songs of the reapers and mowers had vanished, as it were, into the recesses of memory, and the magnificent palace, dull and lonely, lay as if it were situated in some land of the dead, where human voice or footstep had not been heard for years. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
The sun had vanished and dusk had taken over the countryside, casting villages, fields and woods in eerie purple half-light. LOST SUMMER
Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story is an engrossing nonfiction detective tale about the 13-year-old girl of the title, who vanished on the way home from school in Niigata, Japan, in 1977," writes Matt Zoller Seitz in the New York Times. GreenCine Daily: Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story.
A valley, through which flowed a small tributary stream, exhibited the wild, but not unpleasant, features of “a lone vale of green braken;” here and there besprinkled with groups of alder-trees, of hazels, and of copse-oakwood, which had maintained their stations in the recesses of the valley, although they had vanished from the loftier and more exposed sides of the hills. Castle Dangerous
Here's a closeup of Mike now that his velvet has vanished, showing the injury on his right brow antler.
According to the narrator, this Celtic icon had emerged from Cork 15 years earlier, scored a No 1 hit with his husky versifying, and vanished.
It seems to have vanished altogether.
Here some of the public rights of way have vanished and everybody uses the tracks.
Bardell could afford, soon afterwards rendered the amplest justice — indeed they wholly vanished before their strenuous exertions. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
He couldn't see the way they'd come any more, their tracks had vanished along with the path. LOST SUMMER
The pioneering American aviator vanished 75 years ago while attempting to become the first woman to fly around the globe. Times, Sunday Times
I had it in my last house, and then it vanished amid the chaos of the house move.
For my part I was silent on the cause of my own absent-mindedness - the lasses had by now vanished into a studio - and, whilst accepting the proffered hand with which to rise from my prostrate position, observed the man.
The temple ruins are a distant reminder of a vanished empire.
The kangaroo immediately adjourned, and evanished below the horizon.
The evangelist of kitsch took one more bow, waved, and vanished - poof!
The militias have relinquished control of the airport and largely vanished from the clogged streets. Times, Sunday Times
For instance, singers and string players used to slide between important notes of a phrase, an articulation called portamento that generally vanished by 1950.
Most traditional buildings have vanished, to be replaced by gimcrack shoddiness in white tile and blue glass.
While she was on the phone her daughter vanished. The Sun
They dream of a return to that now vanished golden era when a Northern stand-up comedian with a trade-mark whine for a voice led the party.
He vanished completely, and for a moment Jane's skies went dark also. THE ONLY GAME
But any concern she had vanished in a sudden moment of comprehension. DESTROY THE KENTUCKY
Even the young-eyed cherubim, choiring on meadows of asphodel, might cease their harping for a time to listen to a tale of the vanished earth, told by that golden tongue. The Story Girl
I married in my late teens and was taken in by his charm — which soon vanished.
Part of a hoard of family silver which vanished for more than 100 years was yesterday sold at auction for nearly £8,000.
Emily especially had a gleesome delight in these nooks of beauty her reserve for the time vanished.
The pilot vanished on 31 July 1944 while flying a reconnaissance mission.
All thoughts of romance vanished from his mind.
You've been awake for four seconds now and already your frame of reference has vanished.
The ship had vanished without trace.
Instant messaging is even more conversational and speed is even more important, so proper English has almost vanished.
Suddenly without having said a word or made a gesture, the figure turned and vanished. LOST SUMMER
Mr O'Brien told investigators in 1975 that on the day Hoffa vanished, he borrowed a car belonging to Giacolone's son to run some errands.
It gave a sharp kling-klang like a suddenly struck cymbal -- and lo! ... the marble floor yawned asunder, and the banquet-table with all its costly fruits and flowers vanished underground with the swiftness of lightning! Ardath
The signs of a waning career, visible for much of last season, had vanished through the winter. Times, Sunday Times
The usher vanished under the courtroom table to check and when she re-emerged said: ‘That seems to have managed it’.
The old lady with the shawl and trowel adores her frowzy garden and in the vanished days of the empire-the pulse of the explorer quickened at the sight of a desert floor. Bringing It All Back Home
Square -- half-a-mile distant they seemed, opaque haloes about a pin's point of flame, and people passing in the light of them loomed and vanished like the figures of a galanty-show. The Philanderers
With a nimble sidestep, I directed the hunched teenage rider neatly under my outstretched arm holding my overnight bag until, in a flash, he vanished in the swirl of cars, taxis and buses.
As the sun vanished and a full moon rose over the lake – the twin symbols of Inca religion – we toasted the Yavari with pisco sours, Peru's national cocktail. Lake Titicaca's floating B&B
When the last red man has vanished with this wilderness, and his memory is only the shadow of a cloud moving across the prairie, will these shores and forests still be here?
In practice it was not difficult for any person well grounded in doublethink (Orwell’s emphasis) to avoid doing this, but within a couple of generations even the possibility of such a lapse would have vanished’ vii Hope Begins in the Dark: Re-reading Nineteen Eighty-Four
There was a familiarity between dons and students, he claims, that has now vanished. Times, Sunday Times
Alas, visions of liveried footmen and Royal Doulton soon vanished as we pulled into the driveway of Clapped Out Estates, and the effusive greetings of a red-nosed investment banker dressed in plus fours and carpet slippers.
You're going to see those things, with the mortgages being foreclosed, on the people who no longer have any income, whose stock options are worthless and whose salaries have just vanished, and whose companies have just gone.
In 1993, Nasa's Observer spacecraft vanished three days before it was due to enter orbit.
The prospective business partners suddenly vanished without trace. Times, Sunday Times
He turned around and vanished into the house.
There are fears the same animal killed a man who vanished in the area days earlier. The Sun
The application has since vanished without trace. Times, Sunday Times
The secretary's sleepiness vanished when she recognized Emil. ROUGH JUSTICE
The whole northern and lower portion of the island had vanished, except an isolated pitchstone rock, ten yards square, and projecting out of the ocean with deep water all around it. Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror
The thief vanished into the crowd.
But by the time British police got a European arrest warrant he had vanished again. The Sun
His smile vanished as my head seemed to shrink to the size of a pea inside my blazer. Times, Sunday Times
“Suffice it to say,” he reported, “that all the objections to the Constitution vanished before the learning and eloquence of a William Samuel Johnson, the genuine good sense and discernment of a Sherman, and the Demosthenian energy of an Ellsworth.” Ratification
Facing them, on the South Walk cloister wall, were the remnants of the night stairs from the now vanished dorter. Excerpt: The 6th Lamentation by William Brodrick
To get to the final is enough to lay the ghost of those vanished glories. Times, Sunday Times
His friends had long since vanished, leaving him to sort out the problem he was in by himself.
On the other side of the river the mountains rose steeply again, and the road vanished into the wood immediately on the other side.
The car vanished round a bend.
It would not be too many stages before it vanished altogether and a bathroom would become a sine qua non for our future happiness. GOODBYE CURATE
Other large mammals that have vanished are the leopard, the largest species of deer (the sambar and the barking deer), the pig-tailed macaque, and the wild pig.
To get to the final is enough to lay the ghost of those vanished glories. Times, Sunday Times
By the time the sun set behind the cooling towers, the swarm had vanished, washed down-river. Country diary: Wenlock Edge

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