How to Use transience in a Sentence

transience

noun

• Just as a dorm room has transience built in, so do the homes of these SNL men.
  — Curbed, 14 June 2022
• But what the movie is really about is the passage, and the transience, of life.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2023
• Even the 1980s act as a sort of reaction to transience!
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 May 2022
• The work, which deals with both the meaning and the transience of life, remains his most famous.
  — Daniela Mocker, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2022
• The stations on these pages sought to deny all this transience.
  — Edward Carr, 1843, 29 Aug. 2019
• The transience of the tourist, the intractability of the laborer.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
• An award-winning story that is about love, the transience of youth, the quest for meaning, and Frito-Lay.
  — Grace Henes, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
• 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
• Shilling is less convinced of the Anthropause’s transience.
  — Ben Goldfarb, The Atlantic, 6 July 2020
• In Donna Hunter’s eyes, the San Francisco she’s known and loved has been swept up by a wave of transience.
  — Carly Stern, SFChronicle.com, 30 Aug. 2020
• The more problems a street had helped me solve, the stronger its reminder of the transience of everyday troubles.
  — Jessica Brown, Longreads, 18 July 2017
• Inside, the place was quiet, cute, the walls entirely white, with a whiff of transience.
  — John Gastaldo, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• The constant transience was starting to grate on me, anyway.
  — Amy X. Wang, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• Dolores murdered a whole town and both her creators on her path to transience.
  — Matt Miller, Esquire, 6 Dec. 2016
• Free agents have been brought aboard but on short-term deals suggesting transience.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2021
• In the desert, humans are reminded of our smallness, our naïveté, our transience.
  — Meg Bernhard, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2022
• Even so, the symbolism of the cherry tree, rooted in the Buddhist theme of the transience of life, is made for this pandemic moment.
  — Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2022
• That transience means the virus can miss its opportunity to be part of the diverging host species.
  — Quanta Magazine, 13 Sep. 2017
• Awareness of transience colors many of the late-life love stories that Ms. Gubar cites—including her own.
  — Heller McAlpin, WSJ, 22 Nov. 2018
• In fitting with the Day of the Dead, vanitas art is meant to convey the transience of life, the futility of pleasure and the certainty of death.
  — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 19 Oct. 2022
• The kind of hot that anyone can create and define for themselves — even if it is ruled by transience, and demands upkeep.
  — Michelle Santiago Cortés, refinery29.com, 26 June 2021
• Many of the people Field photographed emphasized the temporary nature of living in this way, the gift of transience hemmed by the threat of eviction.
  — New York Times, 13 Jan. 2018
• Still life, in French, is nature morte, a reminder of both copiousness and transience.
  — Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
• To such people, the Crow Sun Dance, or the ordeal of the vision quest, or Buddhist principles of nonattachment and transience might be more than metaphor.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2020
• The cherry blossom is lovely not despite its transience but because of it.
  — Eric Weiner, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2020
• Registering the transience of things — our own childhood, the childhoods of our children, the seasons, life itself — can be painful.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2022
• Inside, the space had an air of transience, as if the tenants had made only a half-hearted effort to rise to the occasion of their own existence.
  — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2022
• In a city known for transience, German was an institution.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2022
• On a silent encounter with a pair of Canadian wolves, and the transience of earthly life, especially for an exile.
  — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, National Review, 16 Nov. 2020
• There’s a transience to the town today that sits uneasily alongside its ancient castle-crown and its timeless white cliffs.
  — Samuel Earle, The New Republic, 22 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024