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Example sentences for "transient"

Lexicographically close words:
transhipped; transhipping; transience; transiency; transiens; transiently; transients; transiit; transire; transistor
  1. Great numbers of Perches are also caught in seines, especially during a transient rise of the water.

  2. Some transient glimpses of light now and then met their eyes, but so faint were they that they believed them to be caused by their faces coming in contact with the slender reeds covered with snow.

  3. Nothing is temporary or transient about the Plan itself, for it rests on eternal foundations.

  4. The appetite is satisfied, says the author of these paradoxes; the man has no longer any want of woman, nor the woman of man; and the latter need not have the least care, nor perhaps the least idea of the effects of the transient intercourse.

  5. Unquiet dreams are in reality a transient madness.

  6. All these cases amount to mere laws of convention, arbitrary usages, transient modes.

  7. I told him that for this reason I had knelt down near the doorway, among the crowd of transient poor people.

  8. The heavens were dark and silent, or rent asunder with wrathful storms, only a transient flash of the aurora relieving the gloom.

  9. The heaven's lightening, and the morning dew Are still before my eyes, and symbolise The world of Earth, as transient as they.

  10. They change the aspect of a parlor from that of a mere reception-room, where visitors perch for a transient call, and give it the air of a room where one feels like taking off one's things to stay.

  11. In virtue of its eternally valid content this new law is in reality the oldest; but it is new because Christ and the prophets were preceded by Moses, who inculcated on the Jews in a transient form that which was eternally valid.

  12. A sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things.

  13. The dew rose and turned to golden mist, thin as a dream, enveloping them until they seemed gossamer relics of the late night, infinitely transient and already fading.

  14. Bahá’u’lláh’s writings provide insights that can help to elevate discussion of religious issues above sectarian and transient considerations.

  15. But if the work of German union was one which, even in the barren form of military empire, required the efforts of two more generations, the ideals of 1813 were no transient and ineffective fancy.

  16. Except amongst pathless deserts or barbarous nomads, it was impossible to find even a transient sanctuary from the imperial pursuit.

  17. Many of these changes happened within the year, especially if the lady had a large fortune, which always went with her, and procured her choice of transient husbands.

  18. Then it was that I was vouchsafed transient vision of the outer strands of the previsionary web England was weaving beyond the marches of India against events to come.

  19. Yet you don't want to waste work on material which time may show as of transient value, or of none.

  20. That was a transient affair, and the shores of the Lago di Como alone had been witnesses of it.

  21. Among these, as we have just seen, is the disposition of the areas that offer suitable resting places for transient birds and hence contribute directly and immediately to the flight overhead.

  22. The consensus of Gulf coast ornithologists seemed to be that transient migration in their respective regions is often performed at too high an elevation to be detected unless the birds are forced to earth by bad weather.

  23. We may infer from these notations that a considerable part of the overhead flight was composed of ducks and other aquatic birds that normally leave the southern United States before the main body of transient species reach there.

  24. Although the concentrations of birds on some days near the mouth of the Mississippi River are almost incalculable, the fact remains that in Texas the densities of transient species on the ground are more consistently high from day to day.

  25. The amount of migration is apparently seldom sufficient to produce heavy densities of transient species on the ground without the operation of concentrative factors such as ecological patterns and meteorological forces.

  26. Framed in the narrow notches from which they sprang appeared transient visions of sun-dazzled peaks and glaciers towering above wedge-shaped valleys swimming full of lilac mist.

  27. During the afternoon of the latter the clouds broke up twice or thrice, and through rifts in the drifting wracks we had transient glimpses of the peaks and glaciers of the Selkirks gleaming above the precipitous western walls of the lake.

  28. He was also encouragingly sympathetic about my transient appearance as a gentleman.

  29. Love is, according to me, somewhat akin to mania, a temporary condition of selfishness, a transient confusion of identity.

  30. Sigismund was not loth to receive the strayed lamb back to his fold, but a misfortune, in the shape of a well-mounted band of the Grand Prince's troops, overtook the transient pan before he had reached the Polish lines.

  31. The Yatvyags first occupied his attention, though it is doubtful if he acquired more than a transient sway over them.

  32. He paused for a moment, but supposing it to be the muttering of one of those transient thunder-showers which often take place in mountain heights, he proceeded.

  33. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit, which the use can at any time yield.

  34. A statesman of large views would also have felt that ten times the estimated produce of the American stamps would have been dearly purchased by even a transient quarrel between the mother country and the colonies.

  35. We wish, however, to avail ourselves of the interest, transient as it may be, which this work has excited.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "transient" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.