How to Use fleeting in a Sentence

fleeting

adjective

• I caught a fleeting glimpse of the comet.
• The exchange is fleeting, and Strain does not turn to look at Young in the video.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 18 Mar. 2024
• But that fight at the very end could be seen as a fall… Well, life is fleeting.
  — Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 June 2023
• Cool girls stick to the classics, which is why the loafer has withstood fleeting trends.
  — Maia Torres, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2023
• Those books that just are about something more than just fleeting things, those are the ones that stand the test of time.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 27 Mar. 2024
• Memories are fleeting at this place from one May to the next.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2023
• That floating, fleeting bridge through the strait of Messina, the first and maybe the only, holds a lesson.
  — Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2023
• Like all of the other Cyber Week sales, these Olaplex deals are fleeting.
  — Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 21 Nov. 2023
• Fame is fleeting and fickle, and all of us have seen people get burned by it.
  — Nojan Aminosharei, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 May 2023
• Campos warns that this energy can be fleeting, so grab the bull by the horns and get things done.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 11 Apr. 2023
• Sakharov had died of natural causes, a free man in a fleeting era of hope.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2024
• For a fleeting moment, Alabama held the game in its paw.
  — USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2023
• The blooms are fleeting, lasting only two or three days.
  — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2023
• Be aware that when this deal has come around in the past, it’s been quite fleeting, so try not to sit on the fence deciding for too long.
  — Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 1 June 2023
• Still, the view from the porthole during the famed dive was something to behold, at least for a few fleeting minutes.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2023
• Where top notes are fleeting, the heart sticks around for a little longer and settles into the skin before the base notes take over.
  — Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 25 May 2023
• Why does thinking about this phase of life, so intense and so fleeting, still appeal to her?
  — Curbed, 18 Oct. 2023
• The wall-to-wall sunshine is fleeting as clouds approach from the storm running through the central United States.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2024
• The moment is fleeting, because usually there is a new pimple (or 10) just as the last one (or 12) is on the way out.
  — Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 17 Aug. 2023
• Even a fleeting tense interaction needn’t sour the mood.
  — Petra Guglielmetti, Glamour, 11 Oct. 2023
• This is usually a fleeting reference and kind of comes and goes.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
• There is a pull to return to the days where quality was prioritized over the fleeting trends that come and go.
  — House Beautiful, 26 May 2023
• Like all other Cyber Week sales, these Olaplex deals are fleeting.
  — Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 24 Nov. 2023
• Texas also proves how fleeting the support for these projects can be — even with the same party in control.
  — Jeff McMurray, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2023
• The internet virality, the gossip, the red carpets, even the hot streak of roles—Mescal knows that so much of it is fleeting.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Aug. 2023
• The salt flat-turned-lake is an exceptional but fleeting sight to behold.
  — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 25 Oct. 2023
• Were that to happen, Ukraine’s victory at sea could be fleeting.
  — Mark Cancian, Foreign Affairs, 8 Feb. 2024
• As much as Martell shattered a glass ceiling in country, her moment would prove to be fleeting.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2024
• Tennis Wasn’t the Problem For all but the best tennis players, the fleeting nature of top form is often a mystery.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 7 July 2023
• Resist the urge to follow fleeting fads; your wedding proposal deserves to be as one-of-a-kind as your love.
  — Boutayna Chokrane, Vogue, 20 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 6 May 2024