How to Use ephemerality in a Sentence

ephemerality

noun

• For many of these phenomena, the charm is in the ephemerality.
  — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024
• Perhaps the most beautiful thing about these sweets are their ephemerality.
  — Caroline Newton, Bon Appétit, 12 Dec. 2024
• Their lyrics are full of self-aware references to the ephemerality of both fame and contentment.
  — Lenika Cruz, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2021
• Like the earlier single, this song revolves around the theme of the ephemerality of love.
  — Caitlin Kelley, Billboard, 8 Dec. 2017
• In the theater, where ephemerality is built into the show, flux is the only constant.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2023
• Online, a meme’s ephemerality is a given, and old jokes more or less evaporate.
  — Wired, 31 Oct. 2019
• Stone lasts a very long time, and Park’s inspiration is the ephemerality of life.
  — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2021
• Although they’re made of solid stuff, Konkel’s artworks are hymns to ephemerality and change.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
• The advent of digital music meant this ephemerality is no longer a concern.
  — Erin MacLeod, The New York Review of Books, 22 May 2019
• Through that love and care, and ephemerality and movement over permanence and rigidity.
  — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 3 Mar. 2025
• These blocks of work demand to be consumed as a whole, and serve as an enemy of the ephemerality of music consumption.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2016
• The ephemerality of social media terrified us, and as such, inspired us.
  — New York Times, 7 Oct. 2020
• Inside, the drawings are striking not only for their subject matter but for their ephemerality.
  — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
• For now, though, history should give prophets of inflation’s ephemerality more pause than prophets of its persistence.
  — Joseph W. Sullivan, National Review, 23 Aug. 2021
• This is inherently erotic, the heartbreaking ephemerality mixed with the sting of the price.
  — Kate Berlant, ELLE, 15 Feb. 2023
• Reflections of things outside of the display intrude on the central objects, adding to the sense of ephemerality.
  — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2021
• Chen and Luo attempt to address the ephemerality and fluidity of time through their use of draping.
  — Vogue, 17 Sep. 2021
• To Kisch, the ephemerality of flowers was a metaphor for life; her sculptures were an attempt at making their full bloom immortal.
  — Diana Budds, Curbed, 29 Apr. 2022
• There’s an appreciation of life and its ephemerality, a belief in the essential beauty of it all.
  — Dustin Nelson, SPIN, 28 June 2024
• That rarity was in part what brought so many people to the reservoir last weekend, but the phenomenon’s ephemerality also played a role.
  — Annie Vainshtein, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 May 2021
• The show reflects on the ephemerality of cultural memory.
  — Douglas Markowitz, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
• The music suggests the permanence of art, the silent violin the ephemerality of our experience of it.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2020
• Yet even in its ephemerality, dumb dumb culture can offer catharsis, laughter or distraction — which, in the right moment, can feel like salvation.
  — Arkansas Online, 14 Aug. 2025
• The irresistible ephemerality of a series of single-bite courses, each one in front of you for just a moment, never to be enjoyed by anyone else ever again.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 2 June 2026
• Today, no tourist can visit that work in The Louvre and no billionaire can buy it at auction—its beauty was in its ephemerality.
  — Ian Malone, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024
• But his understanding of the ephemerality of youth lends emotional impact to what might otherwise have been just killer party music.
  — Pitchfork, 3 Dec. 2024
• At the same time, by committing her own story — or some version of it — to cinema, Wells both acknowledges and fights against this ephemerality.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2022
• Destruction was always part of the Murals to the Metaverse plan, one that turned the ephemerality of street art into a feature rather than a bug.
  — Suhita Shirodkar, Wired, 31 Jan. 2022
• Design, ephemerality, mass production, an alliance of word and image, and calls to action govern the aesthetic.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 11 Jan. 2020
• Below the videos in Rebane’s archive, there is a chorus of voices doing their best to leave a permanent mark in the ephemerality of the internet.
  — Bijan Stephen, Longreads, 26 Feb. 2026