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:

  • The CIA also developed the short-lived effort to work with a Pakistani team that we discussed earlier, and an initiative to work with Uzbekistan.

  • The important contrast is between the bush vegetation in its natural state, country covered in such vegetation, and brush and scrub as subsets of bush on the one hand, and, on the other, country that is naturally open or that has been cleared, an activity which gave the language to burn off as well as short-lived collocations like clearing gang, clearing lease, and clearing party.

  • Their influence was short-lived, although the olive and the grape, both Greek legacies, soon became important, well-tended crops.

  • He concluded that a brief intervention might have a short-lived effect that degrades over time.

  • Yes, I was often promiscuous in my praise and, yes, my affaires de la tête were often sadly short-lived.


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