evanescence
Example Sentences
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And when these apparitions vanish, the text’s overriding theme—of life’s evanescence but also its beauty—does finally dovetail with the ghostly images created by the technology.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026
Another cause is the evanescence of serious history curricula in schools, and an ignorance of the honor in service.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
The book’s setting 30-odd years ago comes to dovetail with that age gap’s built-in sense of evanescence.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2023
A part of it is the evanescence, that it disappears.
From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2021
A book not so much full of birds as full of evanescence, of blue-winged, trumpeting mysteries.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
