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• “Dance is not an ephemeral art form,” said Sandra Aberkalns, the senior staff notator at the bureau.2007 August 30, Roslyn Sulcas, “All the Right Moves”, in New York Times. From the entry notator
• Such skeuomorphs can be used to reconstruct ephemeral artifacts that cannot be recovered archaeologically.2005, Alice A. Donohue, Greek Sculpture and the Problem of Description, page 81. From the entry skeuomorph
• Ah, twitterpation: that state of ephemeral bliss we all have such an awkward relationship with.2002, David Mark Brown, Tainted Love, page 98. From the entry twitterpation
• The photograph isolates a moment in time and engraves what would otherwise be an ephemeral instant, unarchivable.2002, Mary Ann Doane, The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive, page 102. From the entry unarchivable
• It can exploit an ephemeral food supply very effectively by producing a population explosion.1996, Raoul A. Robinson, “Chapter 4: Infection: Allo-Infection and Auto-Infection”, in Return to Resistance: Breeding Crops to Reduce…. From the entry eggless
• You may class us as an ephemeral state, a virtual nation, or a micronation as you prefer.1996 October 23, Joshua Fruhlinger, “Commonwealth of Port Colice”, in alt.talk.hypothetical (Usenet). From the entry ephemeral state
• I look for tadpoles and admire the spring ephemerals.2020 April, Elizabeth Kolbert, “Why we won't avoid a climate…. From the entry spring ephemeral
• The effect of Tumblr's ephemeral timescape was further exacerbated by many Hockey RPF fans' decision to delete works from the AO3.2020, Milena Popova, “How Tumblr's Temporal Features Shape Community Memory and Knowledge”, in Allison McCracken, Alexander Cho, Louisa…. From the entry AO3
• Many of those ephemeral devices, which experts refer to collectively as photographica, were used to illustrate the book.2007 September 14, Dennis Hevesi, “Fred Spira, 83, Who Made Photo Gadgets Accessible, Dies”, in New York Times. From the entry photographica
• The first dream development that resulted from reading cards was a shift from ephemeral to more substantial portrayals.1974, Katharine Cover Sabin, ESP and Dream Analysis, Henry Regnery Company, page 17. From the entry ultravivid
• It proposed to abolish anything definite and categorical and put in its place that which is no more than situational, contextual, and ephemeral.2012, Nicholas Rescher, Pragmatism: The Restoration of Its Scientific Roots. From the entry foremake
• Furthermore, the filling and emptying should occur via an estavelle, or ephemeral spring, and there should be no surface water inlet or outlet.2012 Summer/Haf, Gareth Farr, “Water environment”, in Natur Cymru: A Review of Wildlife in Wales, page 44. From the entry estavelle
• Rather than allocating resources toward longevity, pool sprite directs its efforts towards rapid growth and speedy reproduction to survive in its ephemeral environment.2006, J. Phil Gibson, Plant Ecology, Chelsea House Publishers, →ISBN, page 18. From the entry pool sprite
• Kerr's clipbooks then, such as Journey to the Center of the Theater, tend to be made up of more enduring, less ephemeral pieces.1999, Robert L. Root, E.B. White: the emergence of an essayist, page 61. From the entry clipbook
• Since pathographical writing tends to be so ephemeral, students of pathography will find extremely helpful the special collection developed by Jan Willms at St.1999, Anne Hunsaker Hawkins, Reconstructing Illness: Studies in Pathography, page xvi. From the entry pathographical
• Generally, when people think of serverless computing, they tend to think of applications with back-ends that run on third-party services, also described as code running on ephemeral containers.2017, Maddie Stigler, Beginning Serverless Computing, Apress, →ISBN, page 1. From the entry container
• Small ephemeral features, including shallow caves, are typical of the salt glacier surface, but in an active namakier the salt is flowing too fast to preserve them.2006, John K. Warren, Evaporites: Sediments, Resources and Hydrocarbons, page 471. From the entry namakier
• The highly nomadic pink-eared duck is likely to be found over a vast area but depends for its living on floodwaters, which are, of course, ephemeral.2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 82. From the entry pink-eared duck

Meaning of ephemeral

1. adjective Lasting for a short period of time.
2. adjective Existing for only one day, as with some flowers, insects, and diseases.
3. adjective Usually dry, but filling with water for brief periods during and after precipitation.

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How do you use ephemeral in a sentence?

Ephemeral is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The graben constitutes a depositional basin and a topographic low, underlain by Cretaceous shales, in which volcanic debris accumulated in ephemeral lakes and streams in Oligocene and early Miocene time.”

What is a short sentence with ephemeral?

“I look for tadpoles and admire the spring ephemerals.”

What does ephemeral mean?

Ephemeral means lasting for a short period of time.