How to Use ephemeral in a Sentence

ephemeral

1 of 2 adjective

• There are things that are very ephemeral and hard to pin down.
  — Nojan Aminosharei, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Jan. 2022
• The ephemeral nature of Snapchat is a big draw for teens.
  — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2018
• Fireworks are ephemeral, though the bangs and lights are big.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 21 Sep. 2019
• The find sparked Webb to document more of the ephemeral slime mold growths.
  — Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 6 Jan. 2022
• The shots of snowy mountains and rugged ocean beaches are ephemeral.
  — oregonlive, 26 May 2022
• Out were ephemeral joys, such as clips of dogs on skateboards.
  — Kevin Lozano, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2022
• But as the play takes pains to point out, nothing is stable in this ephemeral world.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2022
• Perhaps part of the beauty is the loss; the flowers suggest an ephemeral grace.
  — New York Times, 22 June 2022
• There’s just something more ephemeral about film at that time.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 25 Aug. 2019
• Matzo balls can be as ephemeral as clouds or firm, with nice chew.
  — New York Times, 19 Mar. 2018
• To leave Bangkok this way is to realize how ephemeral much of the city is today.
  — Lawrence Osborne, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2021
• In spring, the ground layer of ephemeral wildflowers wakes up first.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 13 Nov. 2020
• And any response people have in the present tense is going to be pretty ephemeral.
  — Joe Fassler, The Atlantic, 18 July 2019
• But sometimes the ephemeral islands can persist for years or even decades.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 24 Sep. 2022
• As ephemeral annuals, seed washes down the cliff face with rain to catch in the nooks and crannies.
  — Maureen Gilmer, idahostatesman, 7 Feb. 2018
• But that’s part of what makes its ephemeral beauty so compelling.
  — Nicole Clausing and Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 24 Feb. 2023
• Beyond the ephemeral Tweets, few ever talk about it the next day, let alone the next week.
  — Mara Reinstein, Billboard, 18 June 2019
• Not in a romantic sense, but a love of craft that finds limitless time and space in the ephemeral.
  — Damon Young, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2022
• Dance allows me to share a bit of my soul, if only for an ephemeral moment.
  — Marcia Manna, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Sep. 2017
• One political loss is not the end, and even wins are ephemeral.
  — Brianna Wu, Marie Claire, 9 Oct. 2018
• This is sometimes due to ephemeral needs — the contact that gives rise to a language may not last very long.
  — John Wenz, TheWeek, 20 Sep. 2020
• Yet the projection is ephemeral, as is the civic reclamation of this place.
  — Peter Van Agtmael, Magazine, 8 Dec. 2020
• Even so, humans have long lamented the ephemeral joy of relief.
  — Gloria Liu, The Atlantic, 23 Sep. 2022
• The book also reckons with a more ephemeral threat: creative death.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 3 May 2021
• The season has also spent a lot of time already talking about how ephemeral this all is.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2022
• Trails that were bone dry in fall could summon ephemeral waterfalls in the winter.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2022
• But how are travelers supposed to make plans if flight times are so ephemeral?
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 17 Dec. 2021
• The ephemeral nature of her subject makes each image feel that much more special.
  — Kimber Myers, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2021
• More to the point, the frog’s life cycle requires ephemeral ponds that are dry part of the year and an open-canopy forest.
  — Jess Bravin, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2018
• The one that now seems most ephemeral, like it could be swallowed by Meta at any moment.
  — Angela Watercutter, Wired, 28 Jan. 2022

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ephemeral

2 of 2 noun

• Like all spring ephemerals, the clock is always ticking for the wood anemone.
  — Dave Taft, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2017
• Sure, the trails are known for their spring ephemeral wildflowers but the trees are hard to beat, too!
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 16 June 2023
• That our lives were ephemeral and our fates beyond our control.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 6 June 2023
• Spring ephemerals bloom before tree leaves block the sunlight from reaching the forest floor.
  — cleveland.com, 8 May 2017
• The plant grows in clumps and is a spring ephemeral—producing leaves and flowers for about a month, then going dormant for the rest of the year.
  — Arkansas Online, 28 Mar. 2022
• And so there is no such thing as something that is not ephemeral in terms of our consideration.
  — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 27 June 2023
• Against such a scale, human actions appeared fleeting and ephemeral.
  — Jan Zalasiewicz, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2016
• Nobody thinks about it anymore, so everything is more ephemeral.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Apr. 2021
• The timing of this fleeting wildflower, as with other spring ephemerals, is critical to the balance of the ecosystem.
  — National Geographic, 24 Apr. 2016
• There isn’t a growing season for native plants, although ephemerals bloom and die in a few days and others flower even when there’s snow on the ground.
  — Hattie Bernstein, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2018
• Malware can be designed to be ephemeral and operate only briefly on a device or until the computer restarts.
  — WIRED, 12 Aug. 2023
• As long as tech companies hold the power, everything online is ephemeral.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 3 Nov. 2023
• Harvest insights from user interactions to identify the cream of the crop–posts of the highest quality that transcend clickbait and ephemeral views.
  — Vivek Wadhwa, Fortune, 16 Aug. 2023
• At the end of the day, the goal is to have something to hold onto: a digital file, a CD, a record, anything other than an ephemeral stream.
  — Denise Lu, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
• Dance is notoriously ephemeral, leaving no record of itself, passed down from person to person.
  — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 21 July 2023
• The power comes from the realization that these conversations can happen only once: they are improvised and ephemeral, and can never happen again in the same way.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
• Where the crust is subsiding—as below many of the world’s major deltas—the strata piling up can preserve even seemingly ephemeral traces such as leaves, twigs and footprints.
  — Jan Zalasiewicz, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2016
• In the future, smooth flawless surfaces will render obsolete and forgotten everything that is ephemeral.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 4 May 2023
• With short-form video, the experience of a song may now be more bite-sized and ephemeral, fans may be more fickle and people could be less likely to engage with entire songs and albums.
  — Sapna Maheshwari, New York Times, 24 June 2023
• Elsewhere, the idea of fashion or life itself as ephemeral and ever-moving was conveyed through blurred prints on loose gowns, which sometimes resembled an X-ray.
  — Thomas Adamson, ajc, 3 Mar. 2023
• According to the National Park Service, cool and calm weather typically extends the length of the bloom, while a rainy and windy day can bring an abrupt end to the ephemeral blossoms.
  — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 25 Feb. 2023
• There’s no more delightful affirmation of the perpetual New York dialogue between the substantial and the ephemeral, the skyscraper and the snow.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
• From the ephemeral to the essential, portmanteaus demonstrate English speakers' creativity and love of wordplay.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2023
• Meta said in a blog post this week that the company had fixed bugs that prevented some users’ posts, ephemeral videos known as Stories and short-form videos known as Reels from showing up properly.
  — Naomi Nix, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
• With her philanthropic efforts, Kaufman doesn’t like to fund a single performance because of its ephemeral and temporary nature.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
• Yet, thinking about all this, should any of us waste our summers on the trendy and ephemeral when long stretches of empty time in July and August are ideal for sustained reading, even for research?
  — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
• While most rivers in the U.S. are perennial, across the arid West, ephemeral and intermittent rivers are more common because of drought and their reliance on snowmelt mountain runoff.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 19 June 2023
• Every night before her encore, Rosalía’s last song is Sakura, a pensive ballad named after the ephemeral cherry blossom.
  — Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 June 2023
• The highly creative show itself by Jonathan Anderson – that used feathers, and satins and velvet — continued the theme of reduction and ephemeral impressions.
  — Thomas Adamson, ajc, 3 Mar. 2023
• Guitar heroes have long since been banished by severe lack of interest or attention from colleges, independent niches, or ephemeral spaces.
  — Alan Hernández Pastén, SPIN, 2 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024