Pizza slices vanished faster than a magic trick.

Meaning: The pizza slices disappeared very quickly.

Choice of Words: Pizza is a round flat bread with cheese, tomato, and other toppings, baked in an oven. Slices are pieces of something that have been cut off. Vanished means to disappear suddenly or mysteriously. Magic trick is an illusion or sleight of hand that appears to be supernatural.

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Pizza slices disappeared quicker than a blink of an eye.

Meaning: This means that the pizza slices were gone so fast, it was like they were never there.

Choice of Words: Disappeared means to no longer be visible or to vanish. Quicker means to happen faster than something else. Blink of an eye is a very short amount of time, like the time it takes for you to blink your eye. When you put them together, "Pizza slices disappeared quicker than a blink of an eye" means that the pizza slices vanished very quickly, as if they were gone in an instant.

Pizza slices evaporated into thin air like a puff of smoke.

Meaning: This means that the pizza slices were gone so fast, it was like they had never existed.

Choice of Words: Evaporated means to change from a liquid to a gas and disappear. Thin air is a way of saying there is nothing in a particular space. Puff of smoke is a small cloud of smoke that quickly disappears. When you put them together, "Pizza slices evaporated into thin air like a puff of smoke" means that the pizza slices vanished so quickly and completely, it was as if they had turned into a gas and disappeared into nothingness.

Pizza slices vanished faster than a speeding bullet.

Meaning: This means that the pizza slices were gone so fast, it was like they had teleported away.

Choice of Words: Vanished means to disappear suddenly and without a trace. Faster means to move or happen more quickly than something else. Speeding bullet is a bullet that is traveling very fast. When you put them together, "Pizza slices vanished faster than a speeding bullet" means that the pizza slices disappeared so quickly, it was as if they had moved faster than a bullet.

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