Sample Sentences for

ephemeral

(editor-reviewed)

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

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

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

It was during an access of this kind that I suddenly left my home, and bending my steps towards the near Alpine valleys, sought in the magnificence, the eternity of such scenes, to forget myself and my ephemeral, because human, sorrows.  (source) Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1831

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

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

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

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

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

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

In fact, if there could be any hope, it would be very ephemeral,  (source) Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment, 1866