How to Use transience in a Sentence

transience

noun
  • The stations on these pages sought to deny all this transience.
    — Edward Carr, 1843, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Free agents have been brought aboard but on short-term deals suggesting transience.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Dolores murdered a whole town and both her creators on her path to transience.
    — Matt Miller, Esquire, 6 Dec. 2016
  • But what the movie is really about is the passage, and the transience, of life.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Their eyes evoke deep contemplation of the transience of life.
    — Anthony Kuhn, NPR, 11 June 2026
  • The work, which deals with both the meaning and the transience of life, remains his most famous.
    — Daniela Mocker, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Just as a dorm room has transience built in, so do the homes of these SNL men.
    — Curbed, 14 June 2022
  • Inside, the place was quiet, cute, the walls entirely white, with a whiff of transience.
    — John Gastaldo, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • In the desert, humans are reminded of our smallness, our naïveté, our transience.
    — Meg Bernhard, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The transience of time and the ephemeral nature of our relationships are two of the great themes of these songs.
    — Brandon Taylor, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The cherry blossom is lovely not despite its transience but because of it.
    — Eric Weiner, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2020
  • Finally, there is the issue of partly cloudy skies and the transience of clouds themselves.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Garon has choreographed a dance between transience and permanence.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2020
  • The transience of childhood gives way to a permanence that defines adulthood.
    — Rick Tumlinson, Space.com, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Fallen blossoms whisper on the damp earth, a fleeting poem of transience.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 1 May 2025
  • That transience means the virus can miss its opportunity to be part of the diverging host species.
    — Quanta Magazine, 13 Sep. 2017
  • The kind of hot that anyone can create and define for themselves — even if it is ruled by transience, and demands upkeep.
    — Michelle Santiago Cortés, refinery29.com, 26 June 2021
  • What is so poignant about culinary art, especially as practiced at this level, is its transience.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The trick is that transience itself takes on a thick, solid thinginess, each canvas barnacled over with paint.
    — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
  • An award-winning story that is about love, the transience of youth, the quest for meaning, and Frito-Lay.
    — Grace Henes, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Seattle is no stranger to the transience of corporate identity.
    — Rachel Lerman, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2023
  • An objective, multi faceted gaze into past tragedies and today’s transiences.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The transience of the tourist, the intractability of the laborer.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Still life, in French, is nature morte, a reminder of both copiousness and transience.
    — Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
  • There’s a transience to the town today that sits uneasily alongside its ancient castle-crown and its timeless white cliffs.
    — Samuel Earle, The New Republic, 22 Oct. 2019
  • The group embraced its own transience in performances that existed only in the seconds needed to sing or say or spin them.
    — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
  • But that depth is harder to maintain in the NIL/portal era of player transience.
    — Matt Baker, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
  • For the Ars is notably concerned with transience and mortality.
    — Gregory Hays, The New York Review of Books, 27 May 2020
  • In a sport with so much transience, Holding, 36, not only stayed in San Diego but built a life here.
    — Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2025
  • In Donna Hunter’s eyes, the San Francisco she’s known and loved has been swept up by a wave of transience.
    — Carly Stern, SFChronicle.com, 30 Aug. 2020

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