fleeting

Example Sentences

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What will the next scan bring when it comes to a treatment, surgery, or side effect that means this healthy, happy moment was fleeting?

From Slate • May 6, 2026

For a few fleeting days each year, India's often-shunned transgender community is welcomed and revered at a festival that is at once sacred ritual, celebration, and a refuge.

From Barron's • May 3, 2026

It has been with him all his life, and it is a conductor’s opera — complex, fleeting, sylvan, changeable, tender and tough.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026

At a time when border states are firing at one another, North Korea’s abrupt friendliness—as fleeting as it may be—has lowered the temperature between two countries still technically at war.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

Behind it were more questions, expressed half in feelings, half in fleeting images.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville