Sample Sentences fortransient (editor-reviewed)
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The harvest is dependent upon transient laborers.transient = staying only a short time
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By the time he entered university, Saeed's parents prayed more often than they had when he was younger, maybe because they had lost a great many loved ones by that age, or maybe because the transient natures of their own lives were gradually becoming less hidden from them, or maybe because... (source)transient = temporary (lasting a short time)
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His transient masters since he had come into the Northland had bred in him a fear that no master could be permanent. (source)transient = lasting a short time
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From our brief conversation I deduced that I had just met the celebrated eccentric whom the locals called the Mayor of Hippie Cove, a reference to a bight of tidewater north of town that was a magnet for long-haired transients, near which the Mayor had been living for some years. (source)transients = people who live in an area for a short time
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Permanent transients with no attachments and... (source)transients = people who stay in a place for only a short time
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During periods of extreme stress, transient psychotic symptoms may occur, (source)transient = lasting a short time
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A settled apathy, a gradual wasting away of the person, and frequent although transient affections of... (source)transient = lasting a short time
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There must be transients in the bird world too, rumple-feathered outcasts that naturally seek out each other's company in inferior and dying trees. (source)transients = people who stay for only a short time
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But I still remember what she said to me about my transience in Tobias's life.† (source)
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SISTER MARY JOSEPH PRAISE moved her head, and Matron believed that she was at least transiently aware that Matron held her hand.† (source)
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He knew too well the transiency of exquisite moments to attempt to follow her; but presently he reentered the house and made his way through the deserted rooms to the door.† (source)
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He achieved now another sort of loneliness connected with death, this one nontransient and intense.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in nontransient means not and reverses the meaning of transient. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
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...Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; (source)transient = temporary (lasting a short time)
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Now Dilcey occupied one, and the other two were in constant use by a stream of miserable and ragged transients.† (source)
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Like an old man with rheumy eyes watching children play, seeing only transience in their shrill elation and their wholehearted commitment to life.† (source)
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But the tie which, through their common calamity, had united the feelings of these simple dwellers in the woods with the strangers who had thus transiently visited them, was not so easily broken.† (source)
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