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
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
Most alarmingly, DRM accelerates the transience of our digital goods.
From Slate • Dec. 26, 2023
But I still remember what she said to me about my transience in Tobias’s life.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
