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3 total sentences available.
Time, it is true, absence, change of scene and new faces, might probably have destroyed the illusion in her instance, as it has done in many others; but her residence remained solitary, and her mind without those means of dissipating her pleasing visions.
Source: tatoeba (7752221)
For a long time we led the life of freebooters, robbing and plundering wherever we went, and dissipating the proceeds of our robberies in the wildest debauchery.
Source: tatoeba (11643847)
Researchers at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver think they might have discovered a formula for a pill that effectively delivers a full dose of insulin to a patient’s liver—where it is needed to regulate blood sugar levels—without dissipating uselessly in the stomach.
Source: tatoeba (11767241)
Closest matches include clearing, diffuse, disappear, dispersal, disperse.
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