Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: fleeting
IPA transcription: [fl'itɪŋ]
Pronunciations of fleeting
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: fleeting, fugitive, momentaneous, momentary
    Meaning: lasting for a markedly brief time; "a fleeting glance"; "fugitive hours"; "rapid momentaneous association of things that meet and pass"; "a momentary glimpse"
Usage examples
  • Opportunity, as we know, is fleeting.
  • Susceptibility to fleeting impressions
  • This fleeting hour of light is very pleasant, but of course dependent on a clear sky, very rare.
  • "But what is non-intervention seems to vary as often as the light and shade of every fleeting cloud.
  • That evening, at the crowded corner by the Cafe de la Paix, I caught a fleeting glimpse of Laploshka.
  • The doubt that crept through my mind as to any possibility of connivance between her and Pickering was as vague and fleeting as the shadow of a swallow’s wing on a sunny meadow.
  • 'I think, my dear son,' returned Mrs. Maylie, laying her hand upon his shoulder, 'that youth has many generous impulses which do not last; and that among them are some, which, being gratified, become only the more fleeting.
  • But if to any one the idea of a man be but the vital union of parts in a certain shape; as long as that vital union and shape remain in a concrete, no otherwise the same but by a continued succession of fleeting particles, it will be the SAME MAN.
  • Supposing a rational spirit vitally united to a body of a certain conformation of parts to make a man; whilst that rational spirit, with that vital conformation of parts, though continued in a fleeting successive body, remains, it will be the SAME MAN.
  • It had been no vestal who chose THAT missile for opening her attack on him. He saw this with his intellectual eye, just for a short; fleeting while, as by the light of a falling lamp one might momentarily see an inscription on a wall before being enshrouded in darkness.
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