DISSIPATED in a Sentence
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64 example sentences for DISSIPATED, such as:
1. The wind quickly dissipated the clouds.
2. The tension in the room had dissipated.
3. The mist quickly dissipated as the sun rose.
4. The heat gradually dissipates into the atmosphere.
5. These dissipations make against your chance of success.
2. The tension in the room had dissipated.
3. The mist quickly dissipated as the sun rose.
4. The heat gradually dissipates into the atmosphere.
5. These dissipations make against your chance of success.
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Meanings and Examples of DISSIPATED
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dissipated
a. preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance
a. unrestrained by convention or morality
Classic Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
1 I foresaw," said Martin to Candide, "that your presents would soon be dissipated, and only make them the more miserable.
2 All passions except those of the heart are dissipated by revery.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY
3 There exists beneath society, we insist upon this point, and there will exist, until that day when ignorance shall be dissipated, the great cavern of evil.
4 He was calm and happy now beside Cosette; that which had, for a time, alarmed and troubled him had been dissipated; but for the last week or two, anxieties of another nature had come up.
5 Hardly had Jean Valjean reached the Rue de l'Homme Arme when his anxiety was lightened and by degrees dissipated.
6 The troubled and unhealthy conjectures which had outlined themselves in Marius' mind were dissipated.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM...
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM...
7 Ideas recur to him with abrupt lucidity; the obliteration of intoxication, a sort of steam which has obscured the brain, is dissipated, and makes way for the clear and sharply outlined importunity of realities.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII—ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII—ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK
8 I dressed myself as quickly as possible; my slow and stiff motions all attested that the effects of the narcotic were not yet entirely dissipated.
9 Presently a breeze dissipated the cloud, and I descended upon the glacier.
10 His character is now before you; expensive, dissipated, and worse than both.
11 Then, the two nurses left the room, and had a lively scuffle on the staircase with a dissipated page who had waited at dinner, and who had clearly lost half his buttons at the gaming-table.
12 You are a dissipated fellow, as all the world knows,' he said, with an effort at a smile, 'and I am afraid you'll oblige me to get rid of you.
13 He felt that all his forces, hitherto dissipated, wasted, were centered on one thing, and bent with fearful energy on one blissful goal.
14 The Countess Lidia Ivanovna had, as a very young and sentimental girl, been married to a wealthy man of high rank, an extremely good-natured, jovial, and extremely dissipated rake.
15 Yet, while cementing such friendships for all eternity, almost always they begin quarrelling the same evening, since, throughout, they are a loquacious, dissipated, high-spirited, over-showy tribe.
Example Sentence:
1 The wind quickly dissipated the clouds.
2 The volunteers' energy was dissipated by the enormous amounts of paperwork involved in the project.
3 The heat had to be dissipated by elaborate cooling systems.
4 The mist quickly dissipated as the sun rose.
5 The tension in the room had dissipated.
6 I have myself - I tell it you without parable - been a worldly, dissipated, restless man.
7 His neighbors denounced him as a wastrel who had dissipated his inheritance.
8 These dissipations make against your chance of success.
9 The heat gradually dissipates into the atmosphere.
10 He is a fine artist, but I fear he may dissipate his gifts if he keeps wasting his time playing games.
11 Her parents had started her on drum lessons at age ten to help dissipate some of her inexhaustible energy. But at fifteen, she fell into an emotional morass.