transience
Example Sentences
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These days, the transience of “Spiral Jetty” reads like an early warning of climate chaos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026
Then, with no warning, Amélie’s grandmother dies, and directors Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han Jin Kuang introduce a layer of transience that subtly begins to play with Amélie’s idea that everything is predetermined.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2025
The chair indicates “throne,” the austere clock adds a symbolic note of sober timeliness, as well as intimating life’s inevitable transience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2024
The instrumental music is often skeletal, with an ensemble consisting almost entirely of plucked instruments, their quick decays a reminder of transience.
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2024
I can be free of words now, I can lapse back into wordlessness, I can sink back into the rhythms of transience as if into bed.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
Vocabulary lists containing transience
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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Reading Lolita in Tehran
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The Sound and the Fury
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