How to Use evanescence in a Sentence

evanescence

noun

• Think: the rise of Elsa Peretti baubles and the evanescence of the love bracelet.
  — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 3 Aug. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The revolving wheel of extinction is itself a route of evanescence.
  — Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 19 Aug. 2021
• Their dependable evanescence makes life easy for parents but hard for children.
  — Anne Fadiman, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Feb. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Both groups are striving to locate something fundamental and immutable about Britain in an era of erosion and evanescence.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2018
• Sakura does not just mean love and renewal, but also evanescence and the fleeting nature of existence.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• 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
• Its very activity destroys its relics almost as soon as form and gives them peculiar evanescence.
  — Smithsonian, 11 Jan. 2017
• Perhaps that owes to its oppositional nature, and perhaps to its evanescence.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2019
• Many publications were short-lived, their evanescence evidence of how dangerous this work was.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2022
• Always traced with ephemerality — the snow likely melted before the rendering was done — paintings of snow now record a double evanescence.
  — New York Times, 19 Jan. 2021
• Nelson’s now nonexistent pillar, that paradoxical monument to oblivion, was, for me, an image of both the evanescence of the past and the way that odd parts of it linger and persist—an image, too, that had a beautiful color and a sharp taste: plum.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The Atlantic, 16 June 2022
• Limited edition is crucial to a luxury product’s success, the old supply-and-demand bathed in novelty and evanescence.
  — Washington Post, 12 June 2021
• Researchers proposed replacing the paradigm of extinction with that of evanescence.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
• Share [Findings] Researchers proposed replacing the paradigm of extinction with that of evanescence.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2024
• Share [Findings] Researchers proposed replacing the paradigm of extinction with that of evanescence.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024
• The researchers trained their cameras on the swarms — no small feat, given the swarms’ evanescence and the intrusive curiosity of bystanders — and discovered that, like starlings in a flock, midges in a swarm are collectively correlated.
  — Brandon Keim, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2021
• The story of ancient Assyria is one of extraordinary longevity and startling evanescence.
  — Kyle Harper, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2023
• Her songs—entwined with one another without being constrained—evoke evanescence, but also endurance, and tell a universal story in vividly particular terms that could only be her own.
  — Jack Hamilton, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2017
• Ultimately tinged with the melancholy of passing time— evanescence is written into the nature of pop music— Leto is bursting with great music and an intelligent awareness of how the same songs have very different meanings in different cultures.
  — John Powers, Vogue, 14 May 2018
• There’s a spiritual dimension to Shorter’s musical evanescence, a sense of transcendent striving that marks even his most energetic solos.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2023
• But rock is our closest approximation to the unchanging forever, placing our human evanescence in perspective.
  — courant.com, 9 July 2019
• As a nonspeaking autistic artist, prose writer and poet, Wolfond uses language as an invitation to witness and engage where evanescence arises from multiplicity, not uniformity and convention.
  — Adam Wolfond, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2023
• Vivinsha Veduru Anicca: evanescence or impermanence of existence, an essential doctrine of Buddhism. Tutti: a direction for people who sing or play instruments.
  — Dallas News, 1 June 2022

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024