Sample Sentences forfleeting (editor-reviewed)
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Her moments of happiness were few and fleeting.fleeting = lasting a short time
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Youth is fleeting.fleeting = continues only a short time
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She is all but forgotten today, but there was a time when she was fleetingly famous.fleetingly = for a short time
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This time it had been Fiona who had undergone that fleeting indescribable change. (source)fleeting = short-lived (lasting just a short time)
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Nothing moved but himself, his shadow, and his fleeting reflection in shop windows he passed. (source)
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As it did so, a sudden, fleeting image came to the boy: an army, with its swords at the ready, riding into the oasis. (source)fleeting = lasting a short time
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[of a zoo] It's not a perfect place. Even in just a few fleeting seconds on my TV screen, I can see that. A perfect place would not need walls. But it's the place I need. (source)fleeting = lasting a short time
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Time went fleetingly by until every one of my boys was a grownup man.† (source)
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And she answered, "Just fine," and wished, for a fleeting moment, that she could stay with them forever in that sunny, untidy little house by the pond. (source)fleeting = short-lived (lasting just a short time)
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I fleetingly caught a glimpse of Roy Lee leaping over the still-standing part of the fence, clearing it by a good yard.† (source)
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Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? (source)fleeting = lasting a short time
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I'm twenty-four now, I live in Baden, Elsa County, Iowa, but every time I lift a glass of water to my lips, fleetingly I smell it.† (source)
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She could only hope they could read the depth of sorrow in her face, to recognize that it was true, and not fleeting. (source)fleeting = short-lived (lasting just a short time)
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They reminded me fleetingly of prisoners carrying their leg irons as they escaped from a chain gang.† (source)
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When she was seventeen, she had made a fleeting effort to get her GED. (source)fleeting = lasting a short time
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I saw Harry fleetingly a couple of years ago at the recovery centre in Wiltshire.† (source)
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