How to Use transience in a Sentence
transience
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Just as a dorm room has transience built in, so do the homes of these SNL men.
—Curbed, 14 June 2022
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Even the 1980s act as a sort of reaction to transience!
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 May 2022
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The work, which deals with both the meaning and the transience of life, remains his most famous.
—Daniela Mocker, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2022
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The stations on these pages sought to deny all this transience.
—Edward Carr, 1843, 29 Aug. 2019
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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
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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
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Shilling is less convinced of the Anthropause’s transience.
—Ben Goldfarb, The Atlantic, 6 July 2020
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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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The more problems a street had helped me solve, the stronger its reminder of the transience of everyday troubles.
—Jessica Brown, Longreads, 18 July 2017
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Inside, the place was quiet, cute, the walls entirely white, with a whiff of transience.
—John Gastaldo, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
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The constant transience was starting to grate on me, anyway.
—Amy X. Wang, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023
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Dolores murdered a whole town and both her creators on her path to transience.
—Matt Miller, Esquire, 6 Dec. 2016
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Free agents have been brought aboard but on short-term deals suggesting transience.
—BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2021
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In the desert, humans are reminded of our smallness, our naïveté, our transience.
—Meg Bernhard, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2022
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Even so, the symbolism of the cherry tree, rooted in the Buddhist theme of the transience of life, is made for this pandemic moment.
—Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2022
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That transience means the virus can miss its opportunity to be part of the diverging host species.
—Quanta Magazine, 13 Sep. 2017
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Awareness of transience colors many of the late-life love stories that Ms. Gubar cites—including her own.
—Heller McAlpin, WSJ, 22 Nov. 2018
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In fitting with the Day of the Dead, vanitas art is meant to convey the transience of life, the futility of pleasure and the certainty of death.
—Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 19 Oct. 2022
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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
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Many of the people Field photographed emphasized the temporary nature of living in this way, the gift of transience hemmed by the threat of eviction.
—New York Times, 13 Jan. 2018
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Still life, in French, is nature morte, a reminder of both copiousness and transience.
—Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
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To such people, the Crow Sun Dance, or the ordeal of the vision quest, or Buddhist principles of nonattachment and transience might be more than metaphor.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2020
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The cherry blossom is lovely not despite its transience but because of it.
—Eric Weiner, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2020
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Registering the transience of things — our own childhood, the childhoods of our children, the seasons, life itself — can be painful.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2022
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Inside, the space had an air of transience, as if the tenants had made only a half-hearted effort to rise to the occasion of their own existence.
—Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2022
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In a city known for transience, German was an institution.
—Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2022
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On a silent encounter with a pair of Canadian wolves, and the transience of earthly life, especially for an exile.
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, National Review, 16 Nov. 2020
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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
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Flickering video images add to the sense of transience in pieces by Shelley Picot and Pixie Alexander.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2023
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Seattle is no stranger to the transience of corporate identity.
—Rachel Lerman, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2023
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