Sample Sentences for
transitory
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    To small children, though, the idea of praising God in a tent was confusing.... Would the gentle Jesus care to enter into that transitory setting?  (source)
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    this is a kind of beauty even more transitory than most,  (source)
    transitory = short-lived (lasting a short time)
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    How should he not know love, he, who has discovered all elements of human existence in their transitoriness,  (source)
    transitoriness = shortness
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    His goodness must not be a partial and transitory act, but a constant  (source)
    transitory = temporary (lasting a short time)
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    He was one of the few people who was acutely conscious of the transitoriness of life, and how necessary it was to make the most of it.  (source)
    transitoriness = shortness
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    =========================== Greatness is a transitory experience.†  (source)
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    In these English farms, if anywhere, one might see life steadily and see it whole, group in one vision its transitoriness and its eternal youth, connect—connect without bitterness until all men are brothers.†  (source)
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    For a transitory moment, I think I detect a tiny crack of light in his eyes.†  (source)
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    each one was a will to die, a passionately painful confession of transitoriness, and yet none of them died, each one only transformed, was always re-born, received evermore a new face, without any time having passed between the one and the other face—and all of these figures and faces rested, flowed, generated themselves, floated along and merged with each other, and they were all constantly covered by something thin, without individuality of its own, but yet existing, like a thin glass or ice, like a transparent skin, a shell or mold or mask of water, and this mask was smiling, and this mask was Siddhartha's smiling face, which he, Govinda, in this very same moment touched with his lips.†  (source)
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    Scientists have always ignored national boundaries, holding themselves above the transitory concerns of politics and even wars.†  (source)
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    WHAT I BELIEVE, WHAT I VALUE MOST, is transitoriness.†  (source)
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    Ishmael, a native, could not understand how such transitory and accidental occurrences gained the upper hand in their view of things.†  (source)
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    But is not transitoriness—the perishableness of life—something very sad?†  (source)
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