fleeting

in a sentence

Nothing moved but himself, his shadow, and his fleeting reflection in shop windows he passed.  (source) Jeanne DuPrau, The City of Ember, 2003

This time it was not a fleeting impression.  (source) Lois Lowry, The Giver, 1993

Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable?  (source) John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012

[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) Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan, 2012

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) Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine, 1989

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) Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist, 1988

I saw Harry fleetingly a couple of years ago at the recovery centre in Wiltshire.†  (source) Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go, 2005

An awkwardness treated itself to the room, and Liesel took a final, fleeting glance at the walls of books.  (source) Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, 2005

Josie realized, fleetingly, that she had already learned that lesson from her mother.†  (source) Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes, 2007

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) Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting, 1975

I fleetingly caught a glimpse of Roy Lee leaping over the still-standing part of the fence, clearing it by a good yard.†  (source) Homer Hickam, October Sky, 1998

When she was seventeen, she had made a fleeting effort to get her GED.  (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018

They reminded me fleetingly of prisoners carrying their leg irons as they escaped from a chain gang.†  (source) Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, 1952