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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

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 Ellis, Havelock

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 Gatlin, Dana

The windows of the stately houses that overlook the water take the sunset from it evanescently, and begin to chill and darken before the crimson burns out of the sky.

From Suburban Sketches by Howells, William Dean

He has to deal with parents actual and possible, but the offspring are seen evanescently, often loom in the distance, and sometimes can't be got to exist even when most desired.—Yours truly, J.H.

From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by Burton, John Hill