impermanent

Example Sentences

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No one is above making serious mistakes for something hot but impermanent.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026

He’s rough-hewn, simple, hardworking, not immune to the impermanent nature of the world but brought up short when that world goes awry; Mr. Edgerton has to give emotional depth to a laconic character.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

But just like a bright impermanent star, the young, wide-eyed boys turned industry-downtrodden men burned out in 2016.

From Salon • Oct. 17, 2024

His answer is what he calls “Precarious Sculpture,” proliferating jumbles of lumpen objects made from common, impermanent stuff, as if refusing to play by the elitist rules of enduring art.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2024

All of life was impermanent, for example—a thing she thought about every day.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson