fleeting
Example Sentences
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“One of the things I was thinking about was when we dream and then we wake up, there’s this extreme, fleeting moment where you’re trying to grasp the dream,” Sze said.
From Los Angeles Times
She looked, fleetingly, so hurt that he thought she would weep.
From Literature
Moorby said Turner's paintings were complicated and the "technical skill of it will stop you in your tracks", often presenting the idea that "nature endures, but man's time here is very fleeting".
From BBC
Mr. Herman rightly notes that unipolar moments are fleeting.
The result is at once a tribute to a fleeting moment and a consideration of a more enduring legacy, at times painful, elsewhere joyous.
From Los Angeles Times
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