In a sentence
Six example sentences with ephemeral, each labelled with its topic.
He photographs frost patterns at sunrise because they are ephemeral, gone within twenty minutes of the first warm light.
Photography
Desert pools after a storm are ephemeral, filling on Tuesday and dry by Friday, yet shrimp hatch and breed in them.
Environment
The sand mandala took monks six weeks to build and was swept into the river that evening, deliberately ephemeral.
Art
The messaging app makes every photo ephemeral, deleting it ten seconds after the recipient opens it.
Technology
A souffle is ephemeral, standing tall for perhaps two minutes before it sighs and sinks.
Cooking
The rally proved ephemeral, and the gains of Tuesday morning were gone by Wednesday's close.
Finance
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Found in 11 published word listsRecognized
- Barron's 333 GRE High-Frequency Words
- 5000 GRE Words (widely used study list)
- Manhattan Prep 1000 GRE Words
- GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)
- Magoosh GRE 1000
- PrepScholar 357 GRE Words
- GRE 3000+ word list (widely used study list)
- PowerScore GRE Repeat Offenders (699)
- GregMat 960 GRE Words
- MajorTests SAT 1000
- SparkNotes 1000 SAT Words
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