How to Use fleeting in a Sentence

fleeting

adjective

• I caught a fleeting glimpse of the comet.
• The Spurs are aware of how fleeting joy can be in the NBA.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Apr. 2021
• The exchange is fleeting, and Strain does not turn to look at Young in the video.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 18 Mar. 2024
• The spirit has a fleeting heat that’s gone by the time the shot has slipped down your throat.
  — David Shortell, Bon Appétit, 18 Aug. 2022
• 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
• Fame and love aren’t the only things that are fleeting.
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2024
• The window for Lucy to take that route is fleeting, though.
  — Caroline Glenn, orlandosentinel.com, 14 Oct. 2021
• With the dog days of summer in the rearview, Houston has a fleeting taste of fall up ahead.
  — Jay R. Jordan, Axios, 6 Sep. 2024
• The whole idea is that these feelings are all fleeting.
  — Tricia Despres, PEOPLE.com, 22 Sep. 2021
• Cool girls stick to the classics, which is why the loafer has withstood fleeting trends.
  — Maia Torres, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2023
• And in those fleeting moments of doubt, the tattoos are there.
  — Dennis Waszak Jr., courant.com, 14 Aug. 2021
• 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
• The process of getting to the game has proved to him these moments are fleeting and fickle.
  — Kevin Reynolds, Dallas News, 12 Mar. 2021
• Memories are fleeting at this place from one May to the next.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2023
• Of course, our glimpse of the Innies in the shoes of the Outies was always going to be a fleeting one.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 8 Apr. 2022
• 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
• While the season may be fleeting, its rich plaids, warm hues, and all-around cozy vibes don’t have to be.
  — Alison Allsopp, Country Living, 30 Aug. 2022
• The challenge is for those moments to not be so fleeting.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 25 May 2025
• And in the past, attention to the risks of a pandemic has been fleeting.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 12 May 2022
• The blooms’ brief appearance is a metaphor for the fleeting nature of life.
  — Katherine Lagrave, AFAR Media, 28 Feb. 2025
• At the end of the day, sustainable growth beats a fleeting high every time.
  — Howard Yu, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
• But even then, the amount of time she was truly challenged was fleeting.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 July 2021
• Like all of the other Cyber Week sales, these Olaplex deals are fleeting.
  — Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 21 Nov. 2023
• And such a fleeting, intense pleasure can be hard to come by.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Aug. 2021
• These times are precious and joyful and crazy, all rolled up — and fleeting.
  — Alysha Witwicki, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 May 2022
• Don’t glaze over the metaverse news as simply a fleeting fad.
  — Sidney Swift, Rolling Stone, 8 Dec. 2021
• The third caveat is that, even if Harris does rise in the polls after the debate, those gains could be fleeting.
  — Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2024
• Fame is fleeting and fickle, and all of us have seen people get burned by it.
  — Nojan Aminosharei, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 May 2023
• But this time, grief and fear were tinged with a fleeting hope for change that quickly gave way to despair.
  — Dan Bilefsky, HollywoodReporter, 25 July 2025
• Venus will shine to the upper right of Jupiter in the pre-dawn sky, forming a fleeting cosmic triangle with the red supergiant star Betelgeuse, which will appear low on the eastern horizon before vanishing in the light of the rising sun.
  — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 22 July 2025