ephemeral
Example Sentences
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Absorbing this well-chosen album is a treat, and a chance to appreciate the delicate mortality that thrives in a place simultaneously enormous, eternal and ephemeral.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026
The exhibition slips past the complications of World War II with just a few ephemeral examples before segueing into an accumulation of familiar pop-culture products.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026
And the chair would be something worthy of as much lunch discussion as any horrific international crisis or ephemeral gossip.
From Salon • Feb. 18, 2026
Many are ephemeral; fleeting leaf sculptures that blow away into the forest or giant snowballs placed in the city of London which melted to disclose sticks and stones.
From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026
Other than that ephemeral close encounter, he hadn’t had a single interaction with another human in Richton Park in the three months he’d lived there.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.