How to Use ephemera in a Sentence

ephemera

noun

• He has a large collection of old menus and other ephemera.
• But it’s the sort of inane piece of ephemera that can thrive in this madcap NFT world.
  — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2021
• But most browsers will be tempted to linger the most at the wedding ephemera.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 16 June 2017
• Every day the briefs brimmed with what now seems like ephemera: A coup in Yemen.
  — Glenn Garvin, miamiherald, 18 Oct. 2015
• In Kotaro, the ephemera matters — the small gestures and quirks.
  — Vulture, 23 Apr. 2022
• But if the first ephemera are gone, the memories and stories are not.
  — Jesse Wright, chicagotribune.com, 22 Apr. 2018
• Those remarks don’t belong to the past, or to the South, or to literary ephemera.
  — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 15 June 2020
• Late spring isn't just for wildflowers and Star Wars ephemera.
  — Michael Calore, WIRED, 8 May 2018
• The rest of the set features demos and rehearsals (disc 1), BBC sessions (discs 2-3) and other ephemera.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 14 June 2024
• Among those projects was the collection of drawings and ephemera for the World Trade Center project.
  — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 9 Sep. 2021
• Gladys Pilz of Bend, Ore., said her husband thinks she’s held on to too much ephemera from her growing up years.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2023
• And every day, my son is filling those stacks with the artifacts and ephemera of his young life.
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 18 Nov. 2020
• No matter the language or the content, Ganavya’s voice is a thick ephemera, like smoke as dark as ink, just coming off the fire.
  — New York Times, 4 May 2018
• Our magpie eyes will always be drawn to foolery and ephemera.
  — Giles Hattersley, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2021
• To game lovers, though, the best of all that ephemera is The Addams Family pinball machine.
  — WIRED, 6 Oct. 2022
• Gi-hun bonds with the old man, grows nostalgic over the ephemera of childhood, and praises Sang-woo as the town prodigy.
  — Quinci Legardye, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2021
• Few scholars had thought that children’s rhymes, taunts and games were more than playground ephemera.
  — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2017
• Dental tools, photos and ephemera are part of the exhibit.
  — Staff Reports, The Mercury News, 28 Apr. 2017
• And yet a steady gurgling of moon truther ephemera has remained since the 1970s, from books to documentaries and now, YouTube videos.
  — Rebecca Jennings, Vox, 24 June 2019
• The collection of prints and ephemera that were on display at the Smithsonian came to the Bowers and opened March 10.
  — Richard Chang, latimes.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• Some of these ephemera and publications are kept now at the Library of Congress.
  — Marissa Fessenden, Smithsonian, 13 Oct. 2017
• There’s also a drumhead with ephemera signed by Foo Fighters.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 29 Jan. 2021
• The store is home to a collection of rare and high-end collectible vinyl, as well as collectibles like tour t-shirts and other ephemera.
  — Ryan Smith, Travel + Leisure, 23 Oct. 2021
• Martin's gift was to be deeply engaged with both the ephemera of the day and the important news readers needed to know, said those who worked with him.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 16 May 2022
• Among the paintings, ceramics, and ephemera are busts of Lenin and works by Russian artists from the Soviet era.
  — WIRED, 10 July 2023
• What explains the fascination with the ephemera of one man’s life, including among people who claim that the work was the thing?
  — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
• The store is full of oddities — giant signs from old L.A., novelty phones from the ’70s, mannequins and stacks of L.A. ephemera.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 June 2019
• But there are all sorts of Freudian ephemera here, like his hat and cane, and a photo of his prescription cocaine.
  — Billy Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• Makayla Bailey, Rhizome’s co-director, views online forums as a kind of art in their own right, rife with ephemera that offers clues to the mindset of the time.
  — The Editors Of Artnews, ARTnews.com, 5 Sep. 2024
• Jasper lives off the grid in a gorgeous modernist house full of books and ephemera; that building features a huge window that looks out into the forest, similar to Aguineau’s smaller window that gazes out into the dark blue expanse.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024