Dissipated

Examples

• Presently a breeze dissipated the cloud, and I descended upon the glacier. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The better the gun is, the less will be the energy dissipated in smoke and heat and noise. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The Colonel had dissipated the greater part of his fortune in his chemical investigations. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• In those few weeks he had frightfully dissipated his little capital. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He eschewed gloves, and looked, upon the whole, something like a dissipated Robinson Crusoe. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The fire was not dissipated yet, and she thought it was ignoble in her husband not to apologize to her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• His character is now before you; expensive, dissipated, and worse than both. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• He is a brilliant fellow when he chooses to work--one of the brightest intellects of the university; but he is wayward, dissipated, and unprincipled. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The rest are commonly dissipated and dispersed in the desert. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• If left exposed to the air, which is the only safe way to transport it, it is quickly dissipated. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Such nations are always strangers to every sort of luxury, and great wealth can scarce ever be dissipated among them by improvident profusion. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• She had often called him a horrid dissipated wretch, and threatened to tell Emmy of his wicked ways and naughty extravagant habits. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He is a dissipated, extravagant idler. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The flames of the city bent beneath it; and the smoke and dust arising from the ruins was dissipated. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Otherwise your energy and attention must be dissipated instead of being concentrated. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• One day, a friend of Meyler's, Bradshaw, told me that Meyler led a most dissipated life, and made up to at least half a dozen Frenchwomen in a week. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Edward is frightfully expensive and dissipated. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Upon my word we shall be absolutely dissipated. Jane Austen. Emma.
• When a ball is fired from a rifle, most of the energy of the gunpowder is utilized in motion, but some is dissipated in producing a flash and a report, and in heat. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Or he might become just indifferent, purposeless, dissipated, momentaneous. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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