unenduring
Example Sentences
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She saw now his success as unenduring, fictitious, his talents besmirched with the vice that was most hateful to her.
From The Long Lane's Turning by Hallie Erminie Rives
There are many ways of exciting phosphorescence and fluorescence, the latter being merely an unenduring phosphorescence, which ceases when the exciting energy is cut off.
From Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization by Matthew Luckiesh
The long delay, coupled with fears lest that the Peace Treaty, when it does come, should prove to be a peace unworthy, unsatisfactory, unenduring, has made the hearts of the people sick.
From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Emile Joseph Dillon
This, perhaps, was of the less moment as his anger was of an unenduring kind, evaporating frequently with more celerity than he could get the angry words out of his mouth.
From Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope
She was a dark, unenduring little flower—yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things.
From The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald