How to Use evanescence in a Sentence

evanescence

noun
  • Or will the evanescence of your days be marked by the brief spasm of cherry blossoms in bloom?
    — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Along the way there is a good deal of talk about evanescence — of summertime and everything else.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2020
  • Their dependable evanescence makes life easy for parents but hard for children.
    — Anne Fadiman, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Feb. 2023
  • The revolving wheel of extinction is itself a route of evanescence.
    — Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2021
  • The revolving wheel of extinction is itself a route of evanescence.
    — Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 19 Aug. 2021
  • How to make meaning of one’s life, of life itself and the evanescence of memories, in the midst of pain and suffering?
    — Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Its very activity destroys its relics almost as soon as form and gives them peculiar evanescence.
    — Smithsonian, 11 Jan. 2017
  • Cooked like a risotto and capped by San Diego uni, the satsuki rice nears evanescence with yuzu-pecorino cream.
    — Garrett Snyder, Los Angeles Magazine, 18 July 2017
  • Many publications were short-lived, their evanescence evidence of how dangerous this work was.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Sakura does not just mean love and renewal, but also evanescence and the fleeting nature of existence.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Sakura does not just mean love and renewal, but also evanescence and the fleeting nature of existence.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • As a woman fond of sudden disappearance, Converse seemed to insist on her own evanescence, on her right to stay lost.
    — Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Perhaps that owes to its oppositional nature, and perhaps to its evanescence.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Both groups are striving to locate something fundamental and immutable about Britain in an era of erosion and evanescence.
    — The Economist, 5 July 2018
  • People strolled about, glancing up at the delicate ceiling above their heads and out to the far shore of the basin, where still more of the trees created a distant cloud of frail evanescence.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2023
  • This contributes to the profound sense of melancholy that imbues the proceedings and is most keenly felt through the pervading air of wistful evanescence.
    — Malcolm Forbes Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Always traced with ephemerality — the snow likely melted before the rendering was done — paintings of snow now record a double evanescence.
    — New York Times, 19 Jan. 2021
  • Researchers proposed replacing the paradigm of extinction with that of evanescence.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
  • The filmmaker rarely lingers, making brief moments of grace — like Gabrielle peeking in at her mom and stepdad taking a nap — all the more resonant for their evanescence.
    — Jon Frosch, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026
  • Limited edition is crucial to a luxury product’s success, the old supply-and-demand bathed in novelty and evanescence.
    — Washington Post, 12 June 2021
  • Between the heft of the wooden building and the evanescence of the fog encircling it, the atmosphere was seductively calming—as long as my mind did not linger on the metaphor of the matchbox.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
  • In many ways, nature serves as the ultimate metaphor for fashion—its rebirth, renewal, and cyclicity, as well as its transience, ephemerality, and evanescence.
    — Irene Kim, Vogue, 28 June 2024
  • The setting for this All-Star Game provides a certain reflection about the direction of the Sox and the evanescence of success.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2022
  • The trusted running back waving goodbye with those velvety soft mitts is another reminder of the cruelty and evanescence of the NFL.
    — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2022
  • With the evanescence of a lantern, the Serpentine suspension lamp seamlessly balances form and function, the black lines outlining the spokes and profiles of its diffuser cones designed to emphasize the dynamism of its forms.
    — Elle Decor Editors, ELLE Decor, 20 Apr. 2023

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