EVANESCENT in a Sentence

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1. Brandon's satisfaction in his new job was evanescent, for he immediately began to notice its many drawbacks.
2. She was immediately angry at having betrayed even to herself the possible evanescence of her passion for him.

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 Meanings and Examples of EVANESCENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
evanescent
 a.  fleeting; vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor
Classic Sentence:
1  He had thought he loved her to distraction; he had regarded his passion as adoration; and behold it was only a poor little evanescent partiality.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  In times of strong emotion mankind disdain all base considerations; but such times are evanescent.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 46. Surmises.
3  All was unstable; quivering as leaves, evanescent as lightning.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
4  Looking past that mad helmsman, who was shaking the empty rifle and yelling at the shore, I saw vague forms of men running bent double, leaping, gliding, distinct, incomplete, evanescent.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
5  So that to this hunter's wondrous skill, the proverbial evanescence of a thing writ in water, a wake, is to all desired purposes well nigh as reliable as the steadfast land.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 134. The Chase—Second Day.
6  She was immediately angry at having betrayed even to herself the possible evanescence of her passion for him.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 11 The Dishonesty of an Honest Woman
Example Sentence:
1  Brandon's satisfaction in his new job was evanescent, for he immediately began to notice its many drawbacks.