impermanent

Example Sentences

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See what remains today: In Valentine, Ariz., the Truxton Canyon Training School, where Indigenous children were forcibly sent for assimilation beginning in 1903, still stands near the highway, marked by a small, impermanent memorial.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 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

Our digital life has become increasingly impermanent and is mostly outside of our control, making the threat and pain of digital loss ever more acute.

From Slate • Dec. 26, 2023

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

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