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Fleeting
"Fleeting" in a Sentence (15 examples)
Art is long, time is fleeting.
Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.
The customers gave him fleeting glances, then returned to their conversations.
O time, suspend your flight! and you, happy hours, suspend your race: let us savor the fleeting delights of our fairest days!
A fleeting glimpse of eternity.
When I was 84, I dreamt about a fleeting love.
The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God's mind — a pretty uncomfortable thought, particularly if you've just made a down payment on a house.
Even if it is as fleeting as a scent or as quick as a thought, there is always a way to get what you desire.
If pleasure is fleeting, so is the effort.
Life is short, and Art long; the crisis fleeting; experience perilous, and decision difficult.
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Architecture, sculpture, painting are static arts. Even in literature "our flying minds," as George Meredith says, cannot contain protracted description. It is so; for from sequences of words they must assemble all the details in one simultaneous impression. But moments of fleeting beauty too transient to be caught by any means less swift than light itself are registered on the screen.
As they passed, accelerating, on to the bridge and felt the first bite of the incline beyond, one had a fleeting glimpse of driver and fireman, illumined as by the fires of hell, the one tugging at the regulator handle, the other shovelling for dear life.
During the fleeting summer months of his field season, when the outer vestiges of winter melted briefly, there were ponds and pools and lakes of water everywhere.
For starters, we see examples all the time of some middle-aged men trying to hang onto their own fleeting youth by sporting younger women on their arms.
And I am inspired afresh to pursue the stunning beauty of Christ rather than the fleeting beauty of this world.
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