evanescent

Example Sentences

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While investors walk on eggshells anticipating Fed decisions, tariff relief, and evanescent cease-fires, one company is steadily feeding investors nutritious dividends, cash flows, and earnings per share growth.

From Barron's • Dec. 11, 2025

It’s as if by forswearing the evanescent experience of real-life performing, Glenn Gould gave himself eternal fame.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2024

While it inevitably picks and chooses among the novel’s plot elements, “The English Patient” retains the original’s elusive, evanescent soul.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 24, 2023

Yet an interest in something as ephemeral and evanescent as style is not today seen as the concern of a serious artist.

From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2022

Every man, woman, and child who had died in Weep since...since when?...and passed near enough the citadel in their evanescent journey for Minya to catch.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor