How to Use short-lived in a Sentence

short-lived

adjective
  • But the grass-roots vengeance was short-lived, and met with more killings.
    Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The Franks’ hopes of finding refuge from the Nazis proved short-lived.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 May 2023
  • The main batch of rain will be short-lived, and the sun will peek out in the afternoon.
    Anthony Edwards, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Batts said her time working with the City was short-lived.
    Jessica Babb, Baltimore Sun, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The starting wage was $14 per hour, Wiberg said, and projects are short-lived.
    Ricardo Torres, Journal Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2024
  • The late surge would come, but its impact was short-lived.
    Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 9 June 2024
  • The outcome ends, for now, the threat of a shutdown, but the reprieve may be short-lived.
    Lisa Mascaro, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2023
  • The union was short-lived, with the news breaking that Frances had filed for divorce in March 2016.
    Ellie Beeck, Peoplemag, 24 Oct. 2023
  • But that relief over a union deal might prove short-lived.
    Peter Grant, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Maria quickly stole the lead, which was short-lived as all the players caught up.
    Brian Anthony Hernandez, Peoplemag, 9 May 2024
  • The Web Warriors comics series was short-lived, but a lot of wacky fun. 86.
    Dan Gvozden, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 June 2023
  • In the early stages of RA, flare-ups tend to be short-lived and will resolve on their own.
    Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 5 June 2024
  • An Escape Hatch Progress in the lawsuit was short-lived.
    Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 6 May 2024
  • But the damage was short-lived: Within a year, the Dow was back to pre-crash levels.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 16 May 2024
  • The momentum was short-lived for Italy, whose deficit grew again as Japan took a 7-2 lead in the bottom of the fifth.
    Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Their next opponent would make sure that stay in the top five would be short-lived.
    Craig Meyer, Detroit Free Press, 8 Jan. 2024
  • But that was short-lived too, when Canan Huss scored and drew a foul, enabling him to give the Macks a 61-60 lead at the free-throw line.
    Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Though Winker had a moment to shine Monday, Wong's was short-lived.
    Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 25 July 2023
  • Cicadas are short-lived and will only be around for about six weeks.
    Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 6 May 2024
  • The lead was short-lived, as the start of Stage 3, lap 51, Custer blew the first turn and dropped several positions.
    Ndaschel, oregonlive, 4 June 2023
  • The impact on China's AT1 market proved to be short-lived.
    Rebecca Feng, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Yet Netanyahu is well aware that this reprieve will be short-lived.
    Raja Shehadeh, The New York Review of Books, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Some experts fear the lessons of these disasters are short-lived.
    Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2023
  • And that, in turn, could indicate that this drop in Trump's support will be short-lived.
    Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 30 May 2024
  • His role in the White House was relatively short-lived.
    James Rundle, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The show of hands may have brought a moment of levity, but that moment is short-lived.
    EW.com, 28 May 2024
  • But all the deals eventually fell through or were short-lived.
    Molly Parker, ProPublica, 9 Aug. 2024
  • With some exceptions, many of those efforts turned out to be short-lived.
    Eric Asimov, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2024
  • The journey was short-lived, as a hurricane wrecked the fleet just seven days later off the coast of Eastern Florida.
    Jordan D. Brown, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Any glimmer of hope was short-lived or quickly sabotaged.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 24 Nov. 2024

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