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
• Users must keep in mind these pools are AMM-based and are thus subject to impermanent loss.
  — Leeor Shimron, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
• The mural's artist says it was designed to be impermanent.
  — Patrick Koenigs, ABC News, 20 July 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
• For Angi, the airport is just another point in a long list of impermanent places.
  — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 14 Feb. 2024
• All things in the garden, just as in life, are provisional and impermanent.
  — Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• Mar Bella Figueroa, who refers to herself as an impermanent being, chimes in.
  — Karina González, Allure, 2 Nov. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Researchers are discovering vestiges of lost worlds, preserved by the now-impermanent permafrost, from tools and weapons of early human societies to the corpses of mammoths and wolves that once roamed the Siberian steppe.
  — Jody Rosen, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022
• Icicles rise from the ground like impermanent stalagmites.
  — Geoffrey Giller, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Obama, stung by his failure to produce a deal at Copenhagen in 2009 and aware of Clinton’s climate loss, would later choose not to seek a binding deal on Paris and instead took the easy but impermanent way out via executive action.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 1 June 2017
• Even the technology of impermanent tattoos has changed.
  — Leah Dolan, CNN, 5 Feb. 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
• 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 end of Infinity War is absolutely impermanent and cheap.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 4 May 2018
• The Anduril system offers a low-impact, impermanent, greener alternative that appeals to landowners along the border.
  — Nick Miroff, Washington Post, 2 July 2020
• Everything is impermanent -- our lives and our belongings -- and accepting that impermanence is key to resilience.
  — Katie Hawkins-Gaar, CNN, 1 Nov. 2021
• 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
• These impermanent relationships back home had provoked everything from minor annoyance to full-blown angst.
  — Daisy Alioto, The Cut, 9 Apr. 2018
• 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
• 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
• The structure serves as both a physical storage space for archival materials and a symbolic representation of humanity’s desire to retain meaning in an impermanent world.
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 8 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 13 Oct 2024