How to Use impermanent in a Sentence

impermanent

adjective
  • The pandemic opened our eyes to the frailty of life and how impermanent things are.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 1 May 2022
  • But while tape is great for marking leftovers and other impermanent passers-through, labels are in it for the long haul.
    — Sarah Jampel, Bon Appétit, 23 Apr. 2020
  • All things in the garden, just as in life, are provisional and impermanent.
    — Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Users must keep in mind these pools are AMM-based and are thus subject to impermanent loss.
    — Leeor Shimron, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
  • For Angi, the airport is just another point in a long list of impermanent places.
    — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Mar Bella Figueroa, who refers to herself as an impermanent being, chimes in.
    — Karina González, Allure, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Those are impermanent, and impermanence is what allows for change.
    — David Marchese David Marchese Photo Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Unlike many artists who would shudder at the prospect of obscurity, both find comfort in the impermanent spaces of their work.
    — Laura Neilson, Vogue, 15 July 2022
  • Located just at the album’s center, the track serves as a reminder to be one’s authentic self amid this impermanent life.
    — Rivea Ruff, Essence, 25 Mar. 2024
  • In many ways, his cancer prepared us for the closing of the shop, illuminating the impermanent nature of all things.
    — Betsy Bertram, Outside Online, 18 Nov. 2020
  • The camera drifts, the focus slips, the figures shift; everything onscreen feels fragile and impermanent.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2024
  • The city, like its residents, is impermanent, always shape-shifting, always on the verge of becoming something else.
    — Diana Ruzova, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
  • Fluxus artists sought to upend what art could be — making works that were impermanent, unfinished, participatory and event based.
    — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Lurking in the beauty of the moment is a reminder of how impermanent, fleeting, and vulnerable everything around us is.
    — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Joe ventured to the middle, and Georgie started shouting with worry—but the ice, impermanent and irresistible, was plenty thick.
    — Rivka Galchen, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Diplomacy is an impermanent art at best, and the diplomacy in question was oddly inconclusive from the beginning.
    — Michael Kimmage, The New Republic, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The extended coda suggests that such cancellations are really impermanent, that this one is less a full stop than a pause in Lydia’s career.
    — Vulture, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The extended coda suggests that such cancellations are really impermanent, that this one is less a full stop than a pause in Lydia’s career.
    — Vulture, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Everything is impermanent -- our lives and our belongings -- and accepting that impermanence is key to resilience.
    — Katie Hawkins-Gaar, CNN, 1 Nov. 2021
  • But the weights eventually come off, making that strategy an impermanent solution for the affliction.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Mangan’s taut plot consists of more satisfying turns than there are calli and campi in the impermanent, unknowable City of Bridges itself.
    — The New Yorker, 21 June 2021
  • The method, which is already a possible penalty in Louisiana, is also impermanent.
    — David Matthews, New York Daily News, 4 June 2024
  • But that protection may be impermanent, especially as the virus continues to shapeshift, abetted by unchecked international spread.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Their call is part of a shifting mindset towards migration that may be less impermanent than Mexico is historically accustomed to.
    — Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 May 2023
  • The Anduril system offers a low-impact, impermanent, greener alternative that appeals to landowners along the border.
    — Nick Miroff, Washington Post, 2 July 2020
  • To him, the Internet is an impermanent place, which could vanish at any moment, and Cwtard needs the material on his servers, in his physical possession.
    — David Rutland, Ars Technica, 12 Apr. 2020
  • As the impermanent but potent L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped shows us, imagination can take us to places that have no coordinates or urls.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 16 Oct. 2021
  • For most economists speaking of transitory inflation, the intention is to describe something that is transient and impermanent, Beckworth said.
    — Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 6 Dec. 2021
  • For 20 years, Sinologists have been rightly pointing out the strengths that have helped China avoid pitfalls common to comparable economies and polities, but the pitfalls are still real while the strengths are impermanent.
    — Andrew Gilholm, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2017
  • Despite being yet another impermanent fixture in Lourenço’s life, Maurice provides him with a brief enough spark to begin reconsidering his seemingly dire circumstances — or rather, to begin seeing them in a new light.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 9 Mar. 2024

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