Example Sentences

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With pet pigeons, it seemed, I was closer to the fleetingness of life and the nearness of death than with any other animals I'd had before.

From Salon • Aug. 4, 2022

Hamlet contemplates the fleetingness of existence through the moment.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

In marble the distance between the two — between fleetingness and survival, between expressiveness and dumbness — is immense.

From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2022

But he’s also lost enough people that he recognizes the fleetingness of life.

From Washington Post • Dec. 25, 2021

I am afraid I was not overwhelmed with thoughts of the fleetingness of life or the horror of death.

From Adventures of a Despatch Rider by Watson, William Henry Lowe