ephemeral
Example Sentences
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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
The courts have yet to rule on tariffs and impoundments, and those “savings” could prove ephemeral.
In the meantime Wicks, who hopes to stage a show later this year that intermixes dance with tarot themes, has created an experience that uses modern augmented reality technology and yet feels ephemeral.
From Los Angeles Times
As the already ephemeral freeze-thaw cycle is compressed or diminished, it might be possible, in Canada, to extend the country’s sugar-maple forests by planting trees north of the existing ones.
"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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.