How to Use impermanence in a Sentence

impermanence

noun

• In the case of the Notes app, what was lost was impermanence.
  — Mirel Zaman, refinery29.com, 12 Sep. 2021
• The lives of Ukrainians have long been shaped by impermanence and war.
  — The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2022
• Perhaps the check — like the book, the diary, and the sketchpad — is a sort of rebellion against impermanence.
  — David Scharfenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2018
• Buddhism, for instance, talks about the impermanence of life and the cycles of death and rebirth as one of its main tenets.
  — Allison Hope, CNN, 21 Mar. 2021
• Oh My, is a yearning riff on the impermanence of life itself.
  — Pitchfork, 4 Dec. 2023
• All of this is made more precious, not less, by its impermanence.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2017
• Walking in the woods, that smell of decay is a reminder of impermanence and fall's place in the death-to-rebirth cycle.
  — David G. Allan, CNN, 22 Sep. 2021
• There's something about being aware of the impermanence of life.
  — Amy Shoenthal, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
• But many Uighurs in Turkey find themselves in a state of impermanence.
  — New York Times, 21 Dec. 2019
• In hindsight, the impermanence of the three deal makers’ strategies is easy to skewer.
  — Ed Hammondbloomberg, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
• Topics range from the impermanence of love to the challenges of growing older.
  — Michael Upchurch, The Seattle Times, 30 July 2017
• Embracing the impermanence, much of the Sandlot — which is free to the public — is mobile.
  — Wesley Case, baltimoresun.com, 26 May 2017
• To change is really only to come closer to the essence of one’s impermanence.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2021
• Both Buddhists and Navajo cultures have used mandalas made from sand to show the impermanence of life.
  — Lyndi McNulty, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 20 Nov. 2019
• Stephan learned from her grandmother the impermanence of material things, Stephan tells me, the permanence of the heart and the mind.
  — Logan Jenkins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 May 2017
• Snapchat, an app that sets itself apart through the impermanence of its video and photo messages, did not comment.
  — Melissa Chan, Time, 12 Mar. 2018
• That impermanence, combined with the high cost, has led some in Avon question whether beach nourishment is worth the money.
  — New York Times, 14 Mar. 2021
• Life is constantly changing, and its impermanence is a reminder to be in the present moment.
  — Jacqueline Delgadillo, refinery29.com, 3 Oct. 2023
• Through her work, Akashi explores universal concepts such as time and space, the impermanence of the natural world and the transience of the human body.
  — Andrea Onate, WWD, 17 Sep. 2024
• What renders these images so poignant is their sense of impermanence.
  — Marina Harss, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2017
• Hardy will be knocked out, or will otherwise submit to the impermanence of triumph in mixed martial arts.
  — Robert Klemko, SI.com, 25 June 2018
• Imagine a James shaken, not stirred, by the idea of his own impermanence — and even, perish the thought, irrelevance.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 28 Sep. 2021
• Then notice its impermanence; emotions often come and go like clouds floating in the sky.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 14 May 2024
• But the movement took off only after the horrors of the Franco-Prussian War drove artists to create works focused on the impermanence of life.
  — Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Sep. 2024
• Between heat, wood rot, fire risk and termites, the islands cultivate the idea of impermanence.
  — Kristina Linnea Garcia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2024
• At others, a quiet crypt or a reverent patch of ground calls to attention the impermanence of life and the ever-turning hands of time.
  — Nathan Strauss, National Geographic, 14 Oct. 2019
• In Walsh’s work, however, the impermanence of the image is not a means to an end — raising awareness, for example — but an end in and of itself.
  — Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2020
• Part of the problem at the moment is that we are being promised permanence and we are being told that impermanence can be denied.
  — latimes.com, 25 May 2018
• As Gaby and Mal began looking for a more permanent home, my heart ached with my own impermanence in their lives.
  — Drew Gregory, refinery29.com, 20 Jan. 2021
• Philosophers have wrestled with uncertainty and impermanence since at least the time of the ancient Greeks.
  — Eric Weiner, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024