When he cradled the receiver, the bleak atmosphere had dissipated enough for him to continue.

When they begin rehearsing the play proper, the easygoing atmosphere dissipates quickly as crisp professionalism asserts itself.

To McFarlane, it was as if the tense atmosphere had suddenly dissipated.

The informal listeners have either drifted away or grown middle aged, and the festival's free-spirited atmosphere has dissipated.

The guards in the prison camp can shut off the force fields and the atmosphere will dissipate in less than a minute.

"The atmosphere is dissipating the beam," Spock reported.

But the momentum and atmosphere dissipated as the solos stretched out.

But at least some New Yorkers were grateful that the politically charged atmosphere had dissipated.

But the convincing atmosphere of this opening spread dissipates on succeeding pages.

The revolutionary atmosphere that had followed the declaration of the Helvetic Republic dissipated rapidly in 1799.