evanescence
Example Sentences
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Another cause is the evanescence of serious history curricula in schools, and an ignorance of the honor in service.
They are intricate and variegated, playing with scale, with transience and permanence, with memory and evanescence.
From New York Times
The book’s setting 30-odd years ago comes to dovetail with that age gap’s built-in sense of evanescence.
From Los Angeles Times
People strolled about, glancing up at the delicate ceiling above their heads and out to the far shore of the basin, where still more of the trees created a distant cloud of frail evanescence.
From Washington Post
Their brief and glorious friendship suggested that healing might be possible, even as Piccolo’s death at 26 warned of its evanescence.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
