EVANESCENT in a Sentence
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Example sentences for EVANESCENT, such as:
1. Brandon's satisfaction in his new job was evanescent, for he immediately began to notice its many drawbacks.
2. She was immediately angry at having betrayed even to herself the possible evanescence of her passion for him.
2. She was immediately angry at having betrayed even to herself the possible evanescence of her passion for him.
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Meanings and Examples of EVANESCENT
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evanescent
a. fleeting; vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor
Classic Sentence:
1 He had thought he loved her to distraction; he had regarded his passion as adoration; and behold it was only a poor little evanescent partiality.
2 In times of strong emotion mankind disdain all base considerations; but such times are evanescent.
3 All was unstable; quivering as leaves, evanescent as lightning.
4 Looking past that mad helmsman, who was shaking the empty rifle and yelling at the shore, I saw vague forms of men running bent double, leaping, gliding, distinct, incomplete, evanescent.
5 So that to this hunter's wondrous skill, the proverbial evanescence of a thing writ in water, a wake, is to all desired purposes well nigh as reliable as the steadfast land.
6 She was immediately angry at having betrayed even to herself the possible evanescence of her passion for him.
Example Sentence:
1 Brandon's satisfaction in his new job was evanescent, for he immediately began to notice its many drawbacks.