How to Use fleeting in a Sentence

fleeting

adjective
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  • I caught a fleeting glimpse of the comet.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Cool girls stick to the classics, which is why the loafer has withstood fleeting trends.
    — Maia Torres, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • Memories are fleeting at this place from one May to the next.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2023
  • 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
  • And in the past, attention to the risks of a pandemic has been fleeting.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 12 May 2022
  • At the end of the day, sustainable growth beats a fleeting high every time.
    — Howard Yu, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Like all of the other Cyber Week sales, these Olaplex deals are fleeting.
    — Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 21 Nov. 2023
  • These times are precious and joyful and crazy, all rolled up — and fleeting.
    — Alysha Witwicki, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 May 2022
  • 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
  • Campos warns that this energy can be fleeting, so grab the bull by the horns and get things done.
    — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Since Ned Wulk left in the early 1980s, success has been fleeting.
    — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Life is fragile and fleeting, and love is all that matters.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Sakharov had died of natural causes, a free man in a fleeting era of hope.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2024
  • For a fleeting moment, Alabama held the game in its paw.
    — USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2023
  • In Monet’s paintings, the trees and water lilies appear on the banks of the Seine in a fleeting moment.
    — Amy Verner, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The blooms are fleeting, lasting only two or three days.
    — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2023
  • No detail is too fleeting, too transient, too deeply buried in the mix or too far toward the edge of the soundstage to elude the S5.
    — Simon Lucas, WIRED, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Be aware that when this deal has come around in the past, it’s been quite fleeting, so try not to sit on the fence deciding for too long.
    — Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 1 June 2023
  • The value is in the surprise, and the fleeting flutter of recognition.
    — Tynan Sinks, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2022
  • So much of the fleeting, present-tense pleasure of it is bird-listening.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
  • These models are even more fleeting than the first gpt2-chatbot.
    — Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo, Quartz, 7 May 2024
  • Sadly, this look was fleeting — after a blonde stint, Kylie went back to her mega-long black locks.
    — Ann Wang, Seventeen, 9 Nov. 2022

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