disappear - use in sentences

Preposition: over

  • horizon: NEWHOUSE: I turned, swinging the camera just in time to see the rest of the group disappear over the western horizon.

Preposition: into

  • obscurity: Deller never won another world championship, but nor did he disappear back into total obscurity.
  • ether: However, all weblinks appear to have disappeared into the ether.
  • oblivion: No sooner had friend Matthews disappeared into apparent oblivion ( tho I suspect only temporarily ) than another problem arose.
  • mist: They disappear into the mist at the base of the mountains.
  • undergrowth: The animal climbed a rock face on the other side of the road and disappeared into the undergrowth.
  • thicket: Our guest saw Kuma walk right past the viewing deck and back again, sip some water and disappear into the thicket to relax.

Adjective complement

  • overnight: A year later, a by-pass was built and most of Bob's customers disappeared overnight.

Modifying Another Word

  • mysteriously: Spend time at the park's museum, depicting the story of these people who mysteriously disappeared almost 700 years ago.
  • altogether: In a couple of variations the ground disappears altogether.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • along: The tail gunner had disappeared along with his gun bubble when they had hit the forest canopy.

Used with why or when

  • when: But why didn't the memories disappear when my life became so painful and tearful?

Preposition: without

  • trace: Over the centuries in Carlton many buildings have simply disappeared without trace.

Preposition: in

  • mist: Outside Kings a crane so Huge its top disappears in the mist.
  • cloud: I saw the plane and pilot disappear in a cloud of flame and smoke.
  • flash: It's not just job security which can disappear in a drunken flash.
  • darkness: Luckily for me they had disappeared in the darkness, and the soldiers did not shoot.

Preposition: from

  • sight: In a few seconds the objects had disappeared from sight.
  • scene: For nearly a year he disappeared from the political scene.

Preposition: for

  • while: They took some x rays and the vets disappeared for a while.

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