ephemeral

Example Sentences

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And the chair would be something worthy of as much lunch discussion as any horrific international crisis or ephemeral gossip.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2026

Many are ephemeral; fleeting leaf sculptures that blow away into the forest or giant snowballs placed in the city of London which melted to disclose sticks and stones.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026

As the already ephemeral freeze-thaw cycle is compressed or diminished, it might be possible, in Canada, to extend the country’s sugar-maple forests by planting trees north of the existing ones.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

"And yet they don't necessarily form a crater, or they form ephemeral surface disturbances, but they're not the classic major craters that come from direct impacts."

From Science Daily • Dec. 19, 2025

Isn’t that prominence just an ephemeral phenomenon of the last few centuries, now fading behind the prominence of Japan and Southeast Asia?

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond