Sample sentences for EVANESCENT

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Definition

tending to vanish like vapor

I try to capture the evanescent beauty of the sunset in my photographs.

evanescent = tending to vanish like vapor

An infinite distress possessed Razumov, annihilated his energy, and before his eyes everything appeared confused and as if evanescent.
Conrad, Joseph -- Under Western Eyes
There is nothing more beautiful, I think, than the evanescent fleeting images and sentiments presented by a language one is just becoming familiar with—ideas that flit across the mental sky, shaped and tinted by capricious fancy.
Helen Keller -- Story of My Life

evanescent = tending to vanish like vapor

...evanescent flushes played upon her cheeks and neck...
Shaw, George Bernard -- An Unsocial Socialist
Fyne's young disciples were to her husband's gravity no more than evanescent shadows.
Conrad, Joseph -- Chance
it asked, vigorous and evanescent at the same time, overcoming the strength of the wind, and swept away from Jukes instantly.
Conrad, Joseph -- Typhoon
The fur trade itself, which has given life to all this portraiture, is essentially evanescent.
Irving, Washington -- The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West
Its nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- Essays, First Series
What, then, would it avail the reader to know their names, or the evanescent symbols of their martial rank!
Scott, Walter -- Ivanhoe
In times of strong emotion mankind disdain all base considerations; but such times are evanescent.
Melville, Herman -- Moby Dick I-LXVII
She examined me intently, and I could detect a curious shifting and shading of feelings on her face, too evanescent and ambiguous for definition.
Robert Penn Warren -- All the King's Men
There was something evanescent about Morel, she thought, something shifting and false.
D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers
So evanescent and unstable are men's works in this world!
Mark Twain -- The Prince and The Pauper
Silvery dancing strands that seemed the pure play of light , light as evanescent news, ideas borne on light.
Don DeLillo -- White Noise
There was a knock at the door, and that connection between them-evanescent as a butterfly that lands on your hand-broke.
Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
Although this event failed not of a vivid effect upon my disordered imagination, yet was it evanescent as vivid.
Edgar Allan Poe -- William Wilson
At multiple depths, as far as I could see, there were evanescent trails of phosphorescent green bubbles, the wake of speeding fish.
Yann Martel -- Life of Pi
Centuries telescoped into one evanescent moment.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
A book not so much full of birds as full of evanescence, of blue-winged, trumpeting mysteries.
Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See
In times of strong emotion mankind disdain all base considerations; but such times are evanescent.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick

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