That ship and everything and everybody in her were simply vaporized, and the particles are registering on our geigers now.

While pursuing that promising research, however, Seragen has simply vaporized money.

"I feel in my humble opinion," (he certainly didn't look humble), "that we must work upon this now in order that we should know whether the Tolnep fleet officers and crewmen are to be slowly vaporized individually as pirates or simply shot as military men when court-martialed."

However- " And Ael saw two brief flowers of fire, one after another, as two of the craft captured at Artaleirh were simply vaporized in the unforgiving lines of fire that lanced out from the attacking cruisers.

The material closest to the antimatter detonation was simply vaporized, becoming plasma that added to the energy transfer and would eventually dissipate as gaseous silica and the other constituent elements of the rocks.

And when probes were sent, they were simply vaporized, not by conscious action but simply by being in contact with 'those great ships.

And when, even to get attention, the great weapons had been brought to bear on the newcomers' huge shining vessels, the weapons had simply vaporized, too.

Most of the train seemed to have been simply vaporized.

The explosion was bigger than anything ever seen from a mother ship before; an entire section of the stupendous vessel was simply vaporized, its edges pushed outward as the Main Control section detonated.

People caught in the direct path never even had a chance to cry out before they were simply vaporized.