Short-lived

//ʃɔɹtˈlɪvd//

"Short-lived" in a Sentence (13 examples)

Ill-gotten gains are short-lived. The only way to make real money is to earn every penny.

I wouldn't let a goof-up like that get to you. People have short memories and the one good thing about gossip is that it's short-lived.

To my regret, his was nothing but a short-lived triumph.

Our love affair was as short-lived as a soap bubble.

A glance at Chart 2 will reveal that some of these trade cycles are very short-lived.

Ill-gotten gains are short-lived.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Delusion is short-lived, but remorse lasts a long time.

Happiness was short-lived.

Fadil's excitement was short-lived.

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But his joy was short-lived, for his fortunes soon changed.

At the end of 1927 the Communists were "purged" from the Kuomintang, and although in 1928 a short-lived soviet government had been proclaimed at Hsunyi, it was crushed by General Feng Yu-hsiang's pro-Nanking troops.

Did you know? The London & North Western that became part of the LMS actually consisted of the older LNWR and the Lancashire & Yorkshire. Their merger came into effect on January 1 1922 to create the biggest but most short-lived "pre-Grouping' company.

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