Example sentences for: fleeting

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

  • But when I crept with leaves to hideThose parts, which maids keep unespy'd,Such fleeting pleasures there I took,That with the fancie I awook;And found (Ah me!)

  • Guilt will be borne; grace is fleeting.

  • If Gallant sometimes achieves the same high notes that great reporting does, her less-successful stories resemble the more meandering old New Yorker human-interest profiles, in which a person's fleeting thoughts, neurotic habits, and random memories are woven into a pattering portrait.

  • So to judge America's fleeting architecture by Europe's canonical standards is preposterous.

  • 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.


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