Of course, we now know the city didn't actually disappear.
When the attack is imminent, however, the entire city simply disappears.
The city does not ever disappear entirely, but the point is made.
She sat at the window and watched the city disappear from sight.
If the city disappears as a legal entity, what would happen to the name Miami?
The city had disappeared, hardly any the worse for its experience.
And there lay the main problem, Banks thought as he watched the city disappear behind him.
The city disappears, only to make the group realize that they were never really there.
It looked as if the whole city had disappeared.
This was more than 11,000 years ago - and then the city disappeared under the sea.