Like the skin of a snake, the illusion of a slimy surface evaporated immediately on touch.

Then I sit down and pick up the menu, and the illusion evaporates.

The whole art-as-investment illusion would evaporate.

Unfortunately, the illusion that you're a big, competent corporation evaporates the minute you reveal your Web address - and it's http://hometown.aol.com/CaseyCorp/myhomepage/index.html.

Now that the bubble has burst and debt is harder to procure, that illusion has evaporated.

Ah, all my illusions are evaporating.

All his illusions about overcoming Iesus evaporated.

Today Carcassonne can be entered peacefully, although the illusion of being back in the Middle Ages quickly evaporates.

But Dythragor spoke, and the illusion evaporated.

The illusions evaporated like gossamer mists when jobs were lost.