transient

In a sentence

Six example sentences with transient, each labelled with its topic.

• The star's transient brightening filled eleven nights, and every telescope on the island pointed at it before it faded.

  Science

• A transient market fills the square each Thursday morning and by two in the afternoon nothing remains but crushed lettuce.

  Travel

• Most moods are transient, which is why counselors ask people to wait a day before acting on a strong one.

  Psychology

• Central bankers called the price rise transient, then spent two years discovering that it had settled in to stay.

  Economics

• A transient fault in the network cleared itself before the engineer had even finished opening the log files.

  Technology

• Heraclitus taught that every state of affairs is transient, so the river you step into is never the same river.

  Philosophy

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