Examples of “disappear” in a Sentence

verb To vanish from sight; to stop being visible.

• The footprints began to disappear as the tide came in.
• The sun disappeared behind the clouds.

verb To go missing, especially suddenly and without explanation.

• My neighbor's cat disappeared last week, and nobody has seen her since.
• He had a habit of disappearing for days without telling anyone where he went.
• Her keys seem to have disappeared from the counter.
• The witness disappeared before the trial began.

verb (transitive, informal) To make someone vanish, especially by abducting or killing them for political reasons.

• Many families still search for relatives who were disappeared during the years of military rule.
• The government was accused of disappearing its opponents in the middle of the night.
• Journalists critical of the regime were sometimes disappeared.