Example sentences for: ephemera

How can you use “ephemera” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • You can't help wondering whether its graduates, trained in such ephemera as "Rhetoric and Principle," as one of the core courses is called, will be able to hold their own in the substantially more conservative--and possibly more substantive--public arena.

  • This personal agenda is but one of many treasures to be found in a huge, paperbound tome with the sexless title In the Matter of Representative Newt Gingrich: Exhibits to Draft Report of the Select Committee on Ethics . Published as an evidentiary annex to the much shorter and duller House Ethics Committee report itself, the volume contains notes, memos, doodles, cancelled checks, and other Newt ephemera from 1990 to 1994.

  • The family resemblance among his collages and those being made concurrently by artists in Germany, France, and even the United States provides a bracing example of what is meant by a Zeitgeist --in a time of shaky and sluggish telecommunications, several dozen widely separated artists all hit at once on the idea of chopping up whatever printed ephemera lay at hand and reassembling the fragments into dynamic compositions that reassigned their meaning.

  • And given that his columns are ephemera, why shouldn't Will give them up for his true love?

  • Groovy 's staying power--it has maintained its meaning and its presence for more than six decades--points up the robustness, and even the relative antiquity, of much of what seems like linguistic ephemera.


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