How to Use transient in a Sentence

transient

1 of 2 adjective

• The students are the most transient part of the place.
  — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2025
• This is what the life of a transient hipster-dude looked like.
  — Maria Del Russo, The Cut, 23 Jan. 2018
• The male may have been a transient, based on items found around the remains.
  — oregonlive, 13 May 2021
• These doctors are not transient providers.
  — José Sosa-Palacios, The Orlando Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2026
• But the bursts were so transient that catching and studying them was tricky.
  — Nadia Drake, National Geographic, 27 June 2019
• The city owned 25 of the swans; the other four were transient.
  — Hal Boedeker, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2026
• Most are mild to moderate and transient.
  — Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 6 Mar. 2026
• The closer position has been transient for the club for the last decade.
  — Dallas News, 8 Feb. 2023
• There is warmth in the work but also an awareness that beauty can be transient too.
  — Nel-Olivia Waga, Forbes, 7 July 2021
• The suspect is believed to be a transient and fled the scene, police said.
  — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 19 Mar. 2021
• That held true even for food, which is a material many of us think of as transient.
  — Popular Science, 28 Oct. 2020
• Many of these changes are transient, but some can get locked into place for the long term through feedback loops.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 15 Mar. 2018
• But transient fairy circles that change shape over time have not been widely studied.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2021
• The price of vintage items can be very transient — high one day and nonexistent the next.
  — Tribune News Service, al, 19 June 2022
• This isn’t the first time that researchers have observed a transient object in space.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 7 Feb. 2022
• Schein, who moved here from the East years ago, said this is both a transient city and a rooted one.
  — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 25 Jan. 2020
• This is not to denigrate the need for transient people to get shelter and care.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2020
• Galvin said Wu’s campaign got out and won the younger, more transient, apartment dwellers vote.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2021
• For a material meant to be transient, wood-pulp paper has left its mark and the world.
  — Rachel Adler, Slate Magazine, 4 Aug. 2017
• An unknown number of transient people were rolling around in the grass and rocking back and forth.
  — Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2026
• The transient nature of youth sports has led to a total disconnect.
  — oregonlive.com, 7 June 2019
• That suggests that this may just be a transient problem in these Sun Belt states.
  — Fox News, 24 June 2020
• No sport is as transient as the NHL, which makes closure hard to come by.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 11 May 2021
• The guest population is transient, with many checking in for short stays on their way in or out of town.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 July 2026
• But few jails, which tend to be transient, have programs like Free Writers.
  — Ernesto Londoño David Guttenfelder, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2023
• That’s a complex concept for a small kid but one that kids in transient families grasp from the get-go.
  — Erin Florio, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 June 2020
• Teenagers are at a transient age, and in a few months many will be headed to college or a job or the military.
  — Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Feb. 2018
• The suspect is described as a transient man in his early 30s.
  — Fox News, 16 Feb. 2022
• The man, who is transient, then allegedly dragged her to an encampment area and tied her to a chair with rope.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 29 Nov. 2023
• Success is when the family isn’t transient and the children aren’t forced to move around from school to school.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2019

transient

2 of 2 noun

• The bag is like a bindle rethought for the modern-day transient.
  — Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 18 July 2017
• Trash and used needles left by transients are littered on the ground.
  — Jamie Joseph, Fox News, 8 Aug. 2023
• The missing person is transient, does not have a phone and is not at risk.
  — Rachel Spacek, The Mercury News, 20 June 2019
• The space has been plagued by transients, crime and loitering.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2019
• Staying long enough to feel grounded rather than transient changed the tone of the trip.
  — Jordi Lippe-McGraw, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Mar. 2026
• A lot of that stuff comes and goes — some of it is awful, much more of it is fine but sort of transient.
  — David Pierce, The Verge, 31 Dec. 2023
• Not to mention getting out of your car with transients around and not feeling safe too.
  — George Will, National Review, 13 Jan. 2018
• But Quimby can’t do that because so many of his clients are transients.
  — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 1 Feb. 2026
• The city admits that the space has been plagued by transients, crime and loitering.
  — Karen Pearlman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 July 2018
• Not to mention getting out of your car with transients [around] and not feeling safe.
  — Dom Giordano, Philly.com, 10 Jan. 2018
• Later that day, he was stabbed to death in a drug deal gone bad by two transients and a prostitute.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
• The victim, who police said was a transient, also had abrasions on his face.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Nov. 2022
• As the trip begins, Amy and Danny lob transient thoughts back and forth.
  — Erin Qualey, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2023
• The word 'transient' refers to something that isn't permanent.
  — Jessica Migala, Health.com, 22 Feb. 2022
• Since then, the building had become a place where transients and vandals gather.
  — J. Harry Jones, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 Jan. 2018
• Other missions are also trying to catch transients in the act.
  — Dennis Normile, Science | AAAS, 15 June 2017
• Of those, 25 were owned by the city, and four others were transients that flew into the park at some point.
  — Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2026
• Bars, brothels, and hotels sprang up to cater to rail-riding transients and part-time workers.
  — Zoie Matthew, Los Angeles Magazine, 14 June 2018
• Court documents listed Corey as a transient who would be unable to pay any fines.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2021
• Police are still looking for Schulz and describe him as a transient living in the area.
  — Mallika Kallingal and Keith Allen, CNN, 19 Mar. 2021
• Even toward the end of the event, one flare was almost as bright as the original outburst of the transient.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 27 Nov. 2023
• Astronomers also need software to sift through transient alerts and take a first stab at deciding what an event is.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 12 Feb. 2020
• Police said Decker was a local area transient, and known to frequent that park.
  — Htv National Desk, Houston Chronicle, 3 Sep. 2019
• The official described the suspect in the attack as a transient.
  — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2019
• That case collapsed when Stephanie’s blood was found on a shirt worn by a transient seen in the neighborhood the night of the killing.
  — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 May 2017
• The caller reported a male transient shooting up in the bathroom.
  — Orange County Register, 19 Jan. 2017
• Police said Walker is known to be a transient who lives in different hotels in the area.
  — al, 7 May 2021
• Police described Chavez as a transient who lives in Santa Paula.
  — Hailey Branson-Potts, latimes.com, 15 May 2017
• The owner of the male dog, Mandy Sanchez, 30, is also a transient, the news release said.
  — Cathy Locke, sacbee.com, 8 June 2017
• Those who ride in the early mornings encounter the most transients, according to the agency’s monthly counts.
  — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Apr. 2018