Example sentences for: ephemeral

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

  • Not all these positions have great substantive thought behind them, but nobody gets punished in the pundit games for being too ephemeral.

  • Of these, or the many other similar examples I've collected, there is no mention in the book . The reason that I didn't mention them was that to do so seemed to me "a cheap shot"--concentrating on the ephemeral and the inconsequential--the scummy froth atop the waves of any discourse.

  • But what we stand to lose is ephemeral.

  • These new radioactive atoms are remarkably ephemeral, often decaying in millionths of a second into lighter elements by casting off subatomic particles, their fleeting lives documented only by vapor trails.

  • Maître-Créche, on the other hand, was charged with a felony, punishable by a maximum prison sentence of 25 years, because the term was not used in “the ephemeral, innocuous context of speech,” according to the prosecutor, but in the “semi-non-ephemeral, culturally reverberative context of advertising.”


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