transience
Example Sentences
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These days, the transience of “Spiral Jetty” reads like an early warning of climate chaos.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026
The bond between Noah and Allie is a prism through which to experience both the transience and the permanence of what matters most to us in life.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2026
Then, with no warning, Amélie’s grandmother dies, and directors Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han Jin Kuang introduce a layer of transience that subtly begins to play with Amélie’s idea that everything is predetermined.
From Salon • Nov. 5, 2025
The instrumental music is often skeletal, with an ensemble consisting almost entirely of plucked instruments, their quick decays a reminder of transience.
From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2024
Although his American-born housemates were sometimes noisy, spoke little Korean, and never stayed around very long, he preferred their energetic transience to living alone.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
