Mr. Shankman, then 24, spent the next few days in a fog, wondering how his dream had evaporated.

And even as the dream evaporated and the machine loomed above him, there was still a hand holding on to his wrist.

How many dreams had evaporated on this rotting terrace?

Broadway was by then a noisy shopping street - any dreams of the Champs-Elysees had evaporated.

But their modest dream evaporated with the terms of the loan offered by their bank: 55 percent down and 23 percent interest.

So Delano's dreams of fortune could evaporate like the vineyard dew.

But the dream of being able to calculate the weather weeks ahead - on election day, for example - has evaporated.

Gatsby surely realized that if he were caught and punished, his dream would evaporate.

As the market for Internet stocks plunged last spring, their dreams of instant wealth evaporated.

She laughed, opened the door, and was gone like a dream evaporated at the sound of an alarm clock.