evanescent
adjective
vanishing; fading away; fleeting.
evanescently
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a word derived from
evanescent.
Example Sentences
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You want the fastest, easiest way to get that pile of evanescently sweet, nubby cobs on the table, ready for butter-slathering and gleeful chomping.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 6, 2023
Then was the time that the strange big things which filter through your dreams linger evanescently in your mind to ponder over.
From Missy by Dana Gatlin
Here reality is mirrored so faintly and tremulously, so brokenly, so as it seems evanescently, that the simplest things may be purged and refined into suggestions of exquisite beauty.
From Impressions and Comments by Havelock Ellis
A sense of the fact evanescently gleamed upon her with the appearance of Mrs. Bolton, lamp in hand, and the instantaneous appearance and disappearance of her husband at the back door through which she emerged.
From Annie Kilburn : a Novel by William Dean Howells
Thoughts came to her evanescently, and faded before they were wholly formed.
From Mary Magdalen by Edgar Saltus
