7 sentences with 'disappearance'
Example sentences and phrases with the word disappearance and other words derived from it.
• « Vitiligo is the disappearance of colouring substance from the skin over more or less extensive areas due to the inability to produce the pigment melanin. »
• « The report of Edwin's disappearance had been made at 2:38. Mojica looked at his watch: it was 5pm. Every second that passes there is less chance of saving him, he thought. »
• « When he heard about the boy's disappearance on the evening news, citizens had come to help, some from as far as 60 kilometres away. »
• « With the exception of a lucky few, independent writers live forever at war. For us, financial peril is our daily bread. Our seniority can collapse with a simple change of publisher or the disappearance of a single publication. Yet this uncertainty works miracles in concentration. It teaches lessons - often at 3am, with chequebook and calculator in hand - that other workers and their supervisors would do well to learn. »
• « Long before Pete's disappearance, towards the end of the last century, the English naturalist and physiologist Charles Darwin spoke of the bloodthirsty habits of certain types of phanerogamous plants (those whose plant organs are distinguishable to the naked eye). »
• « Vincent Courtillot, professor of physics at the Institut du Globe in Paris, points out that the birth of this hot spot coincides with two major events: 1) gigantic volcanic eruptions that spewed 2,000,000 cubic kilometres of lava in the Indian region of Deccan; 2) the sudden and brutal disappearance of the dinosaurs: "They would have succumbed to the climatic disturbances engendered by thousands of tons of dust and gas released by the eruptions," he says. »