ephemeral
Example Sentences
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A cycle of ephemeral emperors, military mutinies and civil wars had begun, marring Rome’s third century.
A crop rose that summer in the shadow of the Twin Towers, an ephemeral symbol of plenty beside the perpetually hungry wolves of Wall Street.
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
Over the years, Chinatowns have offered me ephemeral homecomings in city after city without demanding that I make my home there.
From Los Angeles Times
The answer is into the electromagnetic spectrum, the borderless zone that is one endless border zone, allowing the free play of ephemeral legislation over fixed, physical bodies.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
