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Example sentences for "evanescent"

Lexicographically close words:
evaluated; evaluating; evaluation; evaluations; evanescence; evangelic; evangelica; evangelical; evangelii; evangelisation
  1. Evanescent variations can have no effect upon this machine, for they would disappear with the individual in which they appeared.

  2. One is written in the rocks, one in bone and muscle, while the third is recorded in the evanescent and changing pages of embryology and metamorphosis.

  3. How loves, and tastes, and sympathies commence From evanescent notices of sense?

  4. Your remark caps an argument I had with him the other day on the evanescent spirit in art.

  5. Do you remember what I told you about the evanescent spirit in art?

  6. Well," said Leighton, "a beloved flag has an evanescent spirit, too.

  7. And where we have such love, friendship, and blind adoration, let us rest content therein, and smile at the floods of temporary and evanescent emotion which sweep over the mob, but do not have us for their object.

  8. For all earthly fame, ambitious attainment, honor, glory is evanescent and temporary.

  9. All one's work might have been better done; but this is the sort of reflection a worker must put aside courageously if he doesn't mean every one of his conceptions to remain for ever a private vision, an evanescent reverie.

  10. They are divine, in so far as they are time; terrestrial, in so far as they are evanescent moments of time.

  11. The dunes, which had been evanescent through distance in the wind and light, grew material and great.

  12. There was something imponderable, fluid, vaporous, evanescent in his music that eluded analysis and illuded all but hard-headed critics.

  13. Yet notwithstanding the fleeting, evanescent moods of the Preludes, there is designedly a certain unity of feeling and contrasted tonalities, all being grouped in approved Bach-ian manner.

  14. His divinity is falling, it is evanescent in sight of the goal He dreamed; again He is denied by His disciples.

  15. I thought with amazement and some admiration that Mrs Fyne's young disciples were to her husband's gravity no more than evanescent shadows.

  16. You seek sympathy, and all you get is the most evanescent sense of relief--if you get that much.

  17. When the young sailor was by, the old man became less rigid, and when his daughter, on rare occasions, smiled at some artless tale of Mr Powell, the inexpressive face of Mr Smith reflected dimly that flash of evanescent mirth.

  18. In the south of France it is said that two or three secondary species struggle into the tertiary strata; but they form a rare and evanescent exception to the general rule.

  19. Eleanor did not try for many evanescent prettinesses.

  20. She turned its ebony stem once or twice between her fingers, and as she did so Darrow was whimsically struck by the way in which their evanescent slight romance was symbolized by the fading lines on the frail silk.

  21. But even this amazing triumph of morality--of the spirit of Sarah Revercomb over the spirit of the elder Jonathan Gay--showed pallid and bloodless beside the evanescent passion to which she had been sacrificed.

  22. Here the rustling of dead leaves grew louder, and faint scents of decay and mould were wafted through the evanescent beauty of the Indian summer.

  23. Obstacles which had appeared insurmountable at sunrise, showed now as unsubstantial and evanescent as shadows.

  24. The duration of ocular spectra produced by strongly exciting the retina, may be conveniently measured by minutes and seconds; but to ascertain the duration of more evanescent phenomena, recourse must be had to other means.

  25. He thought that the tenderness which used to reside in his eyes was evanescent or gone.

  26. Chloroform, like ether, is an agent too powerful and too evanescent for use as a simple hypnotic.

  27. The question is continually asked, why are certain dreams so vivid and so easily remembered, while others are of the faintest and most evanescent character?

  28. A thick, broad beam of light leaped out, buffeting the murk, striking evanescent glimmers from the rocking facets of the waters.

  29. A half-inquiring, half-incredulous look crossed the frank face of the fine old believer, followed by one of his evanescent frowns.

  30. The highest summit of the mountain region, is below the line at which snow is ever formed in this latitude, and it is disputed whether an evanescent hoarfrost even is sometimes seen upon it.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "evanescent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    atomic; brief; brittle; capricious; changeable; corruptible; deciduous; dissolving; dying; elusive; embryonic; ephemeral; evanescent; fading; fickle; fleeting; flitting; flying; fragile; frail; fugacious; fugitive; germinal; granular; immaterial; impalpable; imperceptible; impermanent; impetuous; imponderable; impulsive; inappreciable; inconstant; indiscernible; infinitesimal; insubstantial; intangible; invisible; light; melting; meteoric; microcosmic; microscopic; molecular; momentary; mortal; mutable; passing; perishable; subatomic; temporal; temporary; tenuous; thin; transient; transitive; transitory; unstable; vanishing; volatile