Sample sentences for EPHEMERAL

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existing only for a short time

ephemeral = existing only for a short time

ephemeral = existing only for a short time

She could barely remember the ephemeral joys of childhood.
It was nothing but an ephemeral dream.
it was all as ephemeral as a rainbow
Virginia Woolf -- To the Lighthouse
What are these elusive and ephemeral things that ignite passion in the human heart?
Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman -- Northern Exposure (TV sitcom), The Bumpy Road to Love (1991 episode)
...contemplating with regret ... the ephemeral splendor of another afternoon that would never return.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera

ephemeral = existing only for a short time

ephemeral = existing only for a short time

a lot of people were concerned with ... the ephemeral nature of things.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World

ephemeral = existing only for a short time

He had so long since ceased to direct his course towards any ideal goal, and had confined himself to the pursuit of ephemeral satisfactions,
Marcel Proust -- Swann's Way

ephemeral = existing only for a short time

ephemeral = existing only for a short time

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

ephemeral = existing only for a short time

In fact, if there could be any hope, it would be very ephemeral,
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment

ephemeral = lasting only for a short time

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

ephemeral = existing only for a short time

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

ephemeral = existing only for a short time

...the floor produced an ephemeral optical illusion...
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code

ephemeral = lasting only for a short time

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

ephemeral = existing only for a short time

And, of course, the most famous apparition of all, reported numerous times in the Capitol basement—an ephemeral black cat that prowled the substructure's eerie maze of narrow passageways and cubicles.
Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol

ephemeral = existing only for a short time

Her companion, also in black, appeared as a well-formed young woman about eighteen, completely possessed of that ephemeral precious essence youth, which is itself beauty, irrespective of complexion or contour.
Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge

ephemeral = existing only for a short time

Her beauty itself was not the mere ephemeral possession it might have been in the hands of inexperience: her skill in enhancing it, the care she took of it, the use she made of it, seemed to give it a kind of permanence.
Edith Wharton -- The House of Mirth

ephemeral = lasting only for a short time

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