How to Use fleeting in a Sentence

fleeting

adjective

• I caught a fleeting glimpse of the comet.
• The exchange is fleeting, and Strain does not turn to look at Young in the video.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 18 Mar. 2024
• The spirit has a fleeting heat that’s gone by the time the shot has slipped down your throat.
  — David Shortell, Bon Appétit, 18 Aug. 2022
• But that fight at the very end could be seen as a fall… Well, life is fleeting.
  — Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 June 2023
• Fame and love aren’t the only things that are fleeting.
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2024
• With the dog days of summer in the rearview, Houston has a fleeting taste of fall up ahead.
  — Jay R. Jordan, Axios, 6 Sep. 2024
• Cool girls stick to the classics, which is why the loafer has withstood fleeting trends.
  — Maia Torres, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2023
• Those books that just are about something more than just fleeting things, those are the ones that stand the test of time.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 27 Mar. 2024
• Memories are fleeting at this place from one May to the next.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2023
• Of course, our glimpse of the Innies in the shoes of the Outies was always going to be a fleeting one.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 8 Apr. 2022
• That floating, fleeting bridge through the strait of Messina, the first and maybe the only, holds a lesson.
  — Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2023
• While the season may be fleeting, its rich plaids, warm hues, and all-around cozy vibes don’t have to be.
  — Alison Allsopp, Country Living, 30 Aug. 2022
• And in the past, attention to the risks of a pandemic has been fleeting.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 12 May 2022
• At the end of the day, sustainable growth beats a fleeting high every time.
  — Howard Yu, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
• Like all of the other Cyber Week sales, these Olaplex deals are fleeting.
  — Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 21 Nov. 2023
• These times are precious and joyful and crazy, all rolled up — and fleeting.
  — Alysha Witwicki, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 May 2022
• The third caveat is that, even if Harris does rise in the polls after the debate, those gains could be fleeting.
  — Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2024
• Fame is fleeting and fickle, and all of us have seen people get burned by it.
  — Nojan Aminosharei, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 May 2023
• Campos warns that this energy can be fleeting, so grab the bull by the horns and get things done.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 11 Apr. 2023
• Since Ned Wulk left in the early 1980s, success has been fleeting.
  — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 20 Jan. 2023
• Life is fragile and fleeting, and love is all that matters.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 11 Oct. 2024
• Sakharov had died of natural causes, a free man in a fleeting era of hope.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2024
• For a fleeting moment, Alabama held the game in its paw.
  — USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2023
• In Monet’s paintings, the trees and water lilies appear on the banks of the Seine in a fleeting moment.
  — Amy Verner, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2022
• The blooms are fleeting, lasting only two or three days.
  — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2023
• No detail is too fleeting, too transient, too deeply buried in the mix or too far toward the edge of the soundstage to elude the S5.
  — Simon Lucas, WIRED, 2 Aug. 2024
• Be aware that when this deal has come around in the past, it’s been quite fleeting, so try not to sit on the fence deciding for too long.
  — Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 1 June 2023
• The value is in the surprise, and the fleeting flutter of recognition.
  — Tynan Sinks, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2022
• But as Adams sits on her bench, these fleeting feelings of security and calm have begun to drift like the clouds on the Montana mountainsides.
  — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2024
• More than one-third of professionals across APAC are unsure which workplace changes will have a lasting impact, and which are fleeting.
  — Feon Ang, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024