ephemeral

Example Sentences

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A cycle of ephemeral emperors, military mutinies and civil wars had begun, marring Rome’s third century.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

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

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

"And yet they don't necessarily form a crater, or they form ephemeral surface disturbances, but they're not the classic major craters that come from direct impacts."

From Science Daily • Dec. 19, 2025

Nicolas was also close to the little girl’s heart, but there was something ephemeral and volatile about him.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende