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:

  • There was no more gambling, prostitutes were arrested, and men and women were segregated in the public bathhouses, with naked government spies to enforce the (short-lived) new rules.

  • Neutrophils are relatively short-lived cells removed from the body under homeostatic conditions by the process of apoptosis.

  • The Moldovan horse scam was inevitably short-lived.

  • Most legal experts said the chance would be short-lived, since courts are almost certain to grant permanent custody to the father.

  • It is possible that sα i2 functions as a short-lived protein regulating some aspect of membrane transport pathways; however, no experiments to directly support or refute this hypothesis have been reported.


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