Thesaurus / transient
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
Such is just another layer of the challenge behind restoring an NBA team’s vigor, especially with today’s transient talent pool.
DE’AARON FOX ISN’T AN ALL-STAR, BUT HE’S TAKEN THE LEAPJAMES L. JACKSONFEBRUARY 25, 2021FIVETHIRTYEIGHT
While this reckoning with racism may seem like a spur-of-the-moment and possibly transient set of events, it has in fact been building for some time.
FOR GENERATIONS, AFRICAN AMERICANS HAVE LED GLOBAL ANTIRACIST MOVEMENTSBRENDA PLUMMERFEBRUARY 18, 2021WASHINGTON POST
As he walked back to his hotel, his head was full of plans for the girl's transient pleasure and lasting benefit.
ROSEMARY IN SEARCH OF A FATHERC. N. WILLIAMSON
He was Gascon to the backbone, and his tongue too often betrayed his most secret and his most transient thoughts.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISON
To the Indians and the Negroes, tobacco is almost the only solace in this transient life.
Our fine weather was very transient, for it was raining again when we reached Worcester.
BRITISH HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS FROM A MOTOR CARTHOMAS D. MURPHY
But the Transient Car bill, as it came to be called, began mysteriously to attract unprecedented attention.
SCATTERGOOD BAINESCLARENCE BUDINGTON KELLAND
Kano's transient flowers were grown, for the most part in pots, and these his daughter Um-ko loved to tend.
THE DRAGON PAINTERMARY MCNEIL FENOLLOSA
It is transient, it will not last—it will not bring reformation—it will never be adequately requited.
THE LADIES' BOOK OF ETIQUETTE, AND MANUAL OF POLITENESSFLORENCE HARTLEY
At the time of his transient wealth Couture splendidly maintained Jenny Cadine.
REPERTORY OF THE COMEDIE HUMAINE, COMPLETE, A -- ZANATOLE CERFBERR AND JULES FRANOIS CHRISTOPHE
WORDS RELATED TO TRANSIENT
- airy
- buoyant
- capricious
- effervescent
- elastic
- elusive
- ephemeral
- erratic
- expansive
- fickle
- fleeting
- flighty
- flippant
- frivolous
- fugacious
- fugitive
- gaseous
- gay
- giddy
- impermanent
- imponderable
- inconsistent
- inconstant
- light
- lively
- lubricious
- mercurial
- momentary
- playful
- resilient
- short-lived
- sprightly
- subtle
- temperamental
- ticklish
- transient
- transitory
- unsettled
- unstable
- unsteady
- up-and-down
- vaporous
- variable
- whimsical
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