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:

  • Upstairs, the Salone dei Cinquecento was built in 1495 for the short-lived Florentine Republic before serving as Duke Cosimo’s throne room and, three centuries later, the chamber of Italy’s first national parliament.

  • 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.

  • A succession of short-lived coalition governments wrestled with the problems posed by separatist movements of the various island groups, dislocation caused by war and its aftermath, a badly neglected infrastructure, and the colo-nial legacy of over-exploited plantations.

  • But the independent parliament was short-lived — against Grattan’s opposition, and through bribery and corruption, it voted to dissolve itself in 1800.

  • Thus, while selective interactions and functional overlap between duplicates declines relatively slowly over evolutionary time, the potential for recombinatorial interactions between paralogues is relatively short-lived.


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