How to Use evanescence in a Sentence
evanescence
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Think: the rise of Elsa Peretti baubles and the evanescence of the love bracelet.
—Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 3 Aug. 2021
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Or will the evanescence of your days be marked by the brief spasm of cherry blossoms in bloom?
—Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024
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Along the way there is a good deal of talk about evanescence — of summertime and everything else.
—Dwight Garner, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2020
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How to make meaning of one’s life, of life itself and the evanescence of memories, in the midst of pain and suffering?
—Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic, 20 Sep. 2024
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Cooked like a risotto and capped by San Diego uni, the satsuki rice nears evanescence with yuzu-pecorino cream.
—Garrett Snyder, Los Angeles Magazine, 18 July 2017
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The setting for this All-Star Game provides a certain reflection about the direction of the Sox and the evanescence of success.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2022
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The revolving wheel of extinction is itself a route of evanescence.
—Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2021
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The revolving wheel of extinction is itself a route of evanescence.
—Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 19 Aug. 2021
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The revolving wheel of extinction is itself a route of evanescence.
—Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 19 Aug. 2021
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The revolving wheel of extinction is itself a route of evanescence.
—Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 19 Aug. 2021
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The revolving wheel of extinction is itself a route of evanescence.
—Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 19 Aug. 2021
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The revolving wheel of extinction is itself a route of evanescence.
—Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 19 Aug. 2021
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The revolving wheel of extinction is itself a route of evanescence.
—Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 19 Aug. 2021
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The revolving wheel of extinction is itself a route of evanescence.
—Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 19 Aug. 2021
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People strolled about, glancing up at the delicate ceiling above their heads and out to the far shore of the basin, where still more of the trees created a distant cloud of frail evanescence.
—Martin Weil, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2023
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Their dependable evanescence makes life easy for parents but hard for children.
—Anne Fadiman, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Feb. 2023
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Between the heft of the wooden building and the evanescence of the fog encircling it, the atmosphere was seductively calming—as long as my mind did not linger on the metaphor of the matchbox.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
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As a woman fond of sudden disappearance, Converse seemed to insist on her own evanescence, on her right to stay lost.
—Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2023
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But on the other hand, Trump’s own brilliant bill is languishing on the pyre, and the president is standing next to it intoning bromides about the inescapable evanescence of life.
—Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 24 Mar. 2017
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The trusted running back waving goodbye with those velvety soft mitts is another reminder of the cruelty and evanescence of the NFL.
—Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2022
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This contributes to the profound sense of melancholy that imbues the proceedings and is most keenly felt through the pervading air of wistful evanescence.
—Malcolm Forbes Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 18 Sep. 2020
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Both groups are striving to locate something fundamental and immutable about Britain in an era of erosion and evanescence.
—The Economist, 5 July 2018
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Sakura does not just mean love and renewal, but also evanescence and the fleeting nature of existence.
—Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
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Sakura does not just mean love and renewal, but also evanescence and the fleeting nature of existence.
—Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
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Sakura does not just mean love and renewal, but also evanescence and the fleeting nature of existence.
—Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
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Sakura does not just mean love and renewal, but also evanescence and the fleeting nature of existence.
—Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 5 June 2020
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Sakura does not just mean love and renewal, but also evanescence and the fleeting nature of existence.
—Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
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Sakura does not just mean love and renewal, but also evanescence and the fleeting nature of existence.
—Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
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Mr. Trump’s evanescence at home stands in stark contrast to his image around the country and the world, thanks to his celebrity as a reality television star, and through the hotels and golf courses that bear his name.
—Susanne Craig and David W. Chen, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2016
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In many ways, nature serves as the ultimate metaphor for fashion—its rebirth, renewal, and cyclicity, as well as its transience, ephemerality, and evanescence.
—Irene Kim, Vogue, 28 June 2024
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