How to Use ephemeral in a Sentence

ephemeral

1 of 2 adjective

• The ephemeral nature of the stage is part of its power.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• The ephemeral nature of Snapchat is a big draw for teens.
  — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2018
• The 100% write-offs are even more ephemeral than other tax cuts in the new law.
  — WSJ, 15 Feb. 2019
• The find sparked Webb to document more of the ephemeral slime mold growths.
  — Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 6 Jan. 2022
• There are things that are very ephemeral and hard to pin down.
  — Nojan Aminosharei, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Jan. 2022
• Fireworks are ephemeral, though the bangs and lights are big.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 21 Sep. 2019
• Beyond the ephemeral Tweets, few ever talk about it the next day, let alone the next week.
  — Mara Reinstein, Billboard, 18 June 2019
• 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
• The drag of the sand slows the pace, which in this case is a good thing because there’s plenty to see along the ephemeral desert spillway.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 2 Mar. 2023
• 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
• Perhaps part of the beauty is the loss; the flowers suggest an ephemeral grace.
  — New York Times, 22 June 2022
• The transience of time and the ephemeral nature of our relationships are two of the great themes of these songs.
  — Brandon Taylor, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
• To leave Bangkok this way is to realize how ephemeral much of the city is today.
  — Lawrence Osborne, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2021
• This was the case with Ford’s tweet, and thousands of other ephemeral dramas.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 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
• The one that now seems most ephemeral, like it could be swallowed by Meta at any moment.
  — Angela Watercutter, Wired, 28 Jan. 2022
• 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
• As ephemeral annuals, seed washes down the cliff face with rain to catch in the nooks and crannies.
  — Maureen Gilmer, idahostatesman, 7 Feb. 2018
• 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
• In spring, the ground layer of ephemeral wildflowers wakes up first.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 13 Nov. 2020
• Dance allows me to share a bit of my soul, if only for an ephemeral moment.
  — Marcia Manna, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Sep. 2017
• Almost all art, even a lot of the good stuff, is ephemeral: toil, creation, then oblivion.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2020
• Yet the projection is ephemeral, as is the civic reclamation of this place.
  — Peter Van Agtmael, Magazine, 8 Dec. 2020
• But that’s part of what makes its ephemeral beauty so compelling.
  — Nicole Clausing and Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 24 Feb. 2023
• One political loss is not the end, and even wins are ephemeral.
  — Brianna Wu, Marie Claire, 9 Oct. 2018
• For as much of Elton John’s career has not been about the ephemeral things, couture has made the man, to some degree.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 18 Nov. 2022
• In 2015 the Obama administration widened the scope of the law to cover even ephemeral streams and ponds.
  — Ann E. Marimow, Timothy Puko and Robert Barnes, Anchorage Daily News, 25 May 2023

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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
• But there is also a beauty in endings and in the ephemeral.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2024
• 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
• That our lives were ephemeral and our fates beyond our control.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 6 June 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
• Spring ephemerals bloom before tree leaves block the sunlight from reaching the forest floor.
  — cleveland.com, 8 May 2017
• As a snapshot of family, the Christmas card is ephemeral.
  — Mac Schwerin, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023
• The declining number and size of ephemeral ponds during drought years, plus nest predators like racoons and skunks take their toll.
  — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 20 Dec. 2023
• 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
• And so there is no such thing as something that is not ephemeral in terms of our consideration.
  — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 27 June 2023
• Cool and calm weather can extend the length of blooming period, but a rainy, windy day can cause the ephemeral blossoms to end abruptly.
  — USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2024
• The timing of this fleeting wildflower, as with other spring ephemerals, is critical to the balance of the ecosystem.
  — National Geographic, 24 Apr. 2016
• Dog tooth violet is one of the spring ephemerals—flowers that display all their beauty during a very short period in the spring.
  — Nadia Hassani, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Jan. 2024
• When to climb Ice-climbing season in sunny California tends to be short and, yes, ephemeral.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2024
• Against such a scale, human actions appeared fleeting and ephemeral.
  — Jan Zalasiewicz, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2016
• 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
• 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
• Nobody thinks about it anymore, so everything is more ephemeral.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Apr. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• As long as tech companies hold the power, everything online is ephemeral.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 3 Nov. 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
• Malware can be designed to be ephemeral and operate only briefly on a device or until the computer restarts.
  — Chuong Nguyen, Ars Technica, 14 Aug. 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
• Snapchat is opening up its revenue sharing program for more creators posting to Stories, the ephemeral photos and videos that users share with friends and followers that are available for 24 hours.
  — J. Clara Chan, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Apr. 2023
• Early-blooming wildflowers called spring ephemerals – such as spring beauty, yellow trout lily, marsh marigold, and more – pop up in fields and woods across Northeast Ohio during early spring.
  — cleveland.com, 8 May 2017
• Federighi takes a shot at explaining why, in an industry where the standard is ephemeral, the machine that Steve Jobs introduced might be immortal.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 19 Jan. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 1 May 2024