Example sentences for: short-lived

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

  • And that would seem to mean that this trend will be short-lived.

  • Obviously the short-lived French conquests in the region left behind words and names; here a crazy man is foo [for Fr fou ] or, if you want to insult him, a crapaud toad, while on our little island resolutely British placenames (Grenville, Victoria) nestle beside villages like Perd-mon-Temps, La Tante, Crochu.

  • Hindu art and scholarship spread through the islands, but on most of the islands, this flowering was short-lived.

  • Though the Federalist-Republican split was short-lived, Americans were recognizing parties as inevitable in a democracy.

  • Borak was a negative in the Victorian language Wathawurung and was one of a comparatively small number of words which the Aboriginal languages collectively contributed to an on-the-whole short-lived Australian pidgin.


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