impermanence
Example Sentences
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While you meditate you brood on the impermanence of all things, including yourself, and envision yourself as a corpse, lying out on a bier, all life gone.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
Dahlia Lithwick: The book is deliberately rooted in this paradox of permanence and impermanence.
From Slate • Sep. 8, 2025
By all measures, this is a movie that needs to do well, even for a studio that prides itself on the impermanence of its properties.
From Salon • Jul. 25, 2025
It's easy to see how the song's messages of impermanence and regret have been adapted to express the loss they've experienced over the last week.
From BBC • Oct. 25, 2024
Movement, travel, impermanence, and passing in the night were laws of the tribe.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
