1.   As they turn into their street, however, hope evaporates.

2.   Automakers once hoped that the Republicans who control Congress would rescue them from their environmental predicament, but that hope is evaporating like a puddle of spilled gasoline.

3.   But those hopes evaporated shortly after the bombing.

4.   But those hopes have all but evaporated as the Senate nears another vote on McCain-Feingold within the next three weeks.

5.   Meanwhile, hopes evaporated Friday for the early release of three U.S. soldiers captured by Serb forces along the Macedonian border.

6.   So far, the rake sales seem to be trailing those of a year ago, suggesting that even hope may be evaporating.

7.   That hope evaporated a week earlier, when Lowery and the Chiefs lost the AFC Championship Game in Buffalo.

8.   Their hopes have nearly evaporated.

9.   Despite two goals from Shaun Bartlett, South Africa saw its hopes evaporate because of two penalties granted the Saudis by Chilean referee Mario Sanchez.

10.   Those hopes evaporated with the subsequent court rulings.