Example sentences for: transience

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

  • To fill the gap, specialized glossaries have emerged, the best naturally in computerized form (like The Jargon File, Version 2.9.6, 16 August 1991), where entries can be quickly and efficiently updated, a process which in itself reflects the hasty transience of much of the vocabulary.

  • This strong sense of transience and impermanence has doubtless arisen as a natural response to Japan’s devastating geography and seismology.

  • Although the sacred structures represent the ultimate focus of the Shinto religion, they are dismantled and renewed every 20 years — one of the most explicit manifestations of the traditional Japanese belief in transience and perpetual renewal.

  • Yet, as observers dating back to Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835 have noted, Americans take pride in their local communities: Wherever transience and provincialism collide, the charge of carpetbagging still stings.


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