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Six example sentences with evanescent, each labelled with its topic.
The photographer chased evanescent morning mist along the riverbank, knowing each shaft of light would be gone within minutes.
Photography
A struck cymbal leaves an evanescent shimmer that fades before the next bar begins, impossible to hold or repeat.
Music
Spring pools in the desert are evanescent, drying to cracked clay within days while the tadpoles race to mature.
Environment
The chef spoons an evanescent citrus foam over the fish, and it collapses to a film before the plate reaches the table.
Cooking
Some particles created in the collider are so evanescent that they decay before crossing the width of a proton.
Science
Heraclitus treated every fixed thing as evanescent, a river you cannot step in twice because it has already moved on.
Philosophy
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