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The actual question is sometimes lost in the vapour trail.

This time of day, it's not too hard to see a missile's vapour trail.

The vapour trail, at that hour of the morning in those air conditions, had become visible very late.

There's a good chance they won't spot the vapour trail if they're not looking for it.

Brooks knew that by dumping fuel they could produce a vapour trail.

A highly radioactive vapour trail is seen coming from the heart of the destroyed reactor.

The flame will jump up to a centimeter down the vapour trail.

They may notice a distinctive noise from its engine or the number of vapour trails it is leaving.

The sky was very big and very blue, with seven planes visible but no vapour trails.

A jumbo jet, passing very high (obviously), left no vapour trail.

They have remained together since, releasing their latest album, Vapour Trails, in 2007.

'But it's become the best economic indicator there is - like vapour trails above a city in the old days.

Walker was all vim, vigour and vapour trails down the flank.

A vapour trail rose from his mouth.

It was leaving an impressive vapour trail.

Criss-crossing vapour trails sprang into being against the washed blue which was visible between the clouds.

Subconsciously, he was looking for the vapour trail of Laskov's missile.

The sky was a searing-blue dome, marked only by a high vapour trail and the lights of habitats.

It was hoped the DC-10 would be making a vapour trail to make it more visible.

Linear cloud disappeared into the blue distance above the turnpike's route, like sections of vapour trail.

But there was never any sign of their presence, save an occasional vapour trail high against the blue of the stratosphere.

His hands left vapour trails when he moved them, and his eyes made whooooshing sounds.

Ruth flopped back in the lounger and studied the vapour trail through half-closed eyes.

The white pulse of his breath was as crisp as a vapour trail against the ruined armour.

Vapour trails wove a net through the clear blue sky, and twice again they heard low-flying jets.

A high plane left a figure eight of white vapor trail across the sky.

The actual question is sometimes lost in the vapour trail.

He could see the vapor trails of the war rockets on the way out from Earth.

It seemed to hang like a vapor trail long after its source was gone.

He glanced up and saw the vapor trails in the sky.

His voice was like a vapor trail in the night sky; her hands opened, trying to catch it.

He could see vapor trails on both sides, but those were almost certainly other aircraft of the attack group.

This time of day, it's not too hard to see a missile's vapour trail.

The vapor trails in the sky left us feeling sick and fearful.

The vapour trail, at that hour of the morning in those air conditions, had become visible very late.

Its vapor trail spread, cold silver on a sky of slate.

The spotter can track the shot by watching for that vapor trail.

A fist flashed into his palm so quickly I only saw the vapor trail.

The moist air condensed behind them and left a vapor trail in front of their sound.

Above, through much of the day, were the vapor trails of American bombers.

There was an enormous cloud behind us that created a massive vapor trail.

They must have felt as though their guts were being dragged up to orbit on me same vapor trail.

In silence the vapor trail expanded and begin to disperse.

It sidesteps me, leaving a vapor trail in its wake.

The green puffball was closer yet, and a line of vapor trailed behind it.

He pointed to the vapor trail of a vessel entering atmosphere.

It left a long, dark vapor trail behind it, stretching out of view.

The object changed course slightly, and the vapor trail twisted around like some sort of cable.

It was a ruined street hanging in the sky, faint as a vapor trail.

The fire ignited the vapor trail, which became a flame a hundred yards long.