FLEETING in a Sentence
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94 example sentences for FLEETING, such as:
1. We paid a fleeting visit to Paris.
2. Life is short and time is fleeting.
3. The fleet is manoeuvring off the coast.
4. The fleet is very expensive to maintain.
5. The Dutch fleet is sailing up the Thames.
2. Life is short and time is fleeting.
3. The fleet is manoeuvring off the coast.
4. The fleet is very expensive to maintain.
5. The Dutch fleet is sailing up the Thames.
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Meanings and Examples of FLEETING
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fleeting
a. lasting for a markedly brief time
Classic Sentence: (77 in 6 pages)
1 For a fleeting instant she saw Melanie's incredulous face, the look on the chaperons' faces, the petulant girls, the enthusiastic approval of the soldiers.
2 Scarlett caught a fleeting glimpse and saw that it was a broad gold ring.
3 For a fleeting immeasurable instant, he pressed her body close to his.
4 She caught a fleeting glimpse of a head of red curls and saw that creature, Belle Watling, heard her shrill drunken laughter as she clung for support to a one-armed soldier who reeled and staggered.
5 Now that she could catch fleeting glimpses of the sun, her spirits soared.
6 This fleeting glimpse of her past served to emphasize the sense of aimlessness with which Lily at length turned toward home.
7 We'll drink to-night with hearts as light, To love, as gay and fleeting As bubbles that swim, on the beaker's brim, And break on the lips while meeting.
8 They did not know that they were such, of course; they only knew that they sought the job, and that the job was fleeting.
9 A desperate and fruitless struggle to recover the branch succeeded, and then the savage was seen for a fleeting instant, grasping wildly at the empty air.
10 In such a scene none had leisure to note the fleeting moments.
11 The sage started, and bent his head aside, as if to catch the fleeting sounds of some passing melody.
12 And not be able to leave behind one the slightest token of one's gratitude, scarcely even a fleeting regret--nothing but an empty place which the first comer can fill as well as any other.
13 Sometimes, for a fleeting moment, I thought I caught a glance, heard a tone, beheld a form, which announced the realisation of my dream: but I was presently undeserved.
14 Tom hinted at things he had to attend to; things that must be done; and time was fleeting.
15 We stepped, as it were, right out of the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the most fleeting glance of the front of the house.
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1 We paid a fleeting visit to Paris.
2 Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique.
3 For one fleeting moment , Paula allowed herself to forget her troubles.
4 Life is short and time is fleeting.
5 Sometimes, for a fleeting moment, I thought I caught a glance, heard a tone, beheld a form, which announced the realization of my dream.
6 Then a faint moan came sighing through the branches of the forest and the boys felt a fleeting breath upon their cheeks.
7 He said the program lets the government connect fragmented and fleeting communications.
8 Nelson destroyed the Franco-Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar.
9 The fleet is manoeuvring in combination with the air unit.
10 The Dutch fleet is sailing up the Thames.
11 The British fleet sailed from Southampton early this morning.
12 The fleet is - ring off the east coast.
13 The fleet is very expensive to maintain.
14 The fleet is manoeuvring off the coast.
15 There's been a big reduction in the size of the British merchant fleet in recent years.