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

The writing had been individual attempts to capture moments, feelings, impulses; the reshaping was to shift those evanescent feelings into a coherent form.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2024

But it was in his novel “Next Season,” which I’m always foisting on theater friends, that Blakemore managed to capture the evanescent world of the stage in all its heartbreak and glory.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2023

The album feels more like a ghostly mosaic or a mirage — evanescent, bewitching, fragmentary — than an exact telling of that story.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2022

But first they were unmade, their edges fading like the evanescent white bird, Wraith, as it phased through the skin of the sky.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor