ephemeral

in a sentence

It was nothing but an ephemeral dream.

The ephemeral bloom of a sego lily peeks from the toe of a ninety-foot stone arch,  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

For some reason Meg felt that Mrs Which, despite her looks and ephemeral broomstick, was someone in whom one could put complete trust.  (source) Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time, 1962

...the floor produced an ephemeral optical illusion...  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

Now, they came in with deeper plantings -- ephemerals...  (source) Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965

a lot of people were concerned with ... the ephemeral nature of things.  (source) Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World, 1991

They were fragments of dreams-but solid, to be touched, to be felt, to be used-not ephemeral at all.  (source) Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity, 1980

Nicolas was also close to the little girl's heart, but there was something ephemeral and volatile about him.  (source) Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits, 1986

In a soft voice, Lifaen said, "Once we were like you, bright, fleeting, and as ephemeral as the morning dew."  (source) Christopher Paolini, Eldest, 2005

...contemplating with regret ... the ephemeral splendor of another afternoon that would never return.  (source) Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera, 1988

For how can we condemn something that is ephemeral, in transit?  (source) Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, 1984

Kutuzov defeated Napoleon precisely because he was not swayed by the ephemeral and superficial values of the court, and made his decisions on a visceral understanding of his men and his people.  (source) Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, 1994

But I am aware of our ephemeral passage.  (source) Virginia Woolf, The Waves, 1931