fleeting
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- fleetingly adverb
- fleetingness noun
- unfleeting adjective
Etymology
Origin of fleeting
Example Sentences
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Behind it were more questions, expressed half in feelings, half in fleeting images.
From Literature
“One of the things I was thinking about was when we dream and then we wake up, there’s this extreme, fleeting moment where you’re trying to grasp the dream,” Sze said.
From Los Angeles Times
She looked, fleetingly, so hurt that he thought she would weep.
From Literature
Moorby said Turner's paintings were complicated and the "technical skill of it will stop you in your tracks", often presenting the idea that "nature endures, but man's time here is very fleeting".
From BBC
Mr. Herman rightly notes that unipolar moments are fleeting.
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