is fleeting
- present progressive of fleet (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Fashion is fleeting; this film is positively disposable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
Despite feeling like an empty vessel sometimes — “much of it feels like there are never enough hours in the day,” she said — Hsiao knows time spent with her kids is fleeting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2024
In the end, the subject of the exhibition is really an immaterial poetic thread in which memory is fleeting but art, in its various forms, connects people, places and history.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2024
Only during the early spring do we get fresh rhubarb because cool spring weather is fleeting along the Gulf Coast.
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2024
The image is fleeting, and it could be my imagination, not a memory.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
