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Definition of fleeting in English: fleetingadjective ˈfliːtɪŋˈflidɪŋ Lasting for a very short time. for a fleeting moment I saw the face of a boy Example sentencesExamples - For one brief moment, I caught a fleeting glimpse of what looked to be hurt in her eyes.
- Dousing her face and neck, she gazed for a fleeting moment into the water, her thoughts momentarily blank.
- But beyond that, in the grounds I get a fleeting glimpse of what appears to be a parking lot for buses.
- It is in those unique dialogues, in those brief and fleeting moments, that we express ourselves and share our unique inner lives with others.
- Ryan's moments of full body movement were fleeting and two short routines were tantalising in their restraint.
- But it was a fleeting glimpse, for at that moment she felt a stirring in the air around her.
- But then, of course, those brief moments of revelation were fleeting.
- And for that brief, fleeting moment, it almost didn't seem so bad.
- Joe looked up and for a fleeting moment Adam saw something flit across his eyes.
- Suddenly, she saw a rapid, fleeting movement in the row of trees in their right.
- Instead we can only hope that the odd fleeting moment of inspiration surfaces on what is destined to be an increasingly irrelevant continuance.
- His smirk turned into a smile, for the briefest of fleeting moments, before he rose from the table, and walked away.
- A rifle cracked behind Swift and for one fleeting moment he thought he was dead, he lay still waiting for the pain.
- Those joyful and fleeting moments in the streets give us a brief glimpse of what our worlds could be like.
- It's a formidable challenge for a first timer, but don't for one fleeting moment discount the young man's chances of landing what would truly be an outstanding double.
- Paul caught a brief, fleeting glimpse of the computer screen.
- For a few minutes, no not minutes, hope was only there for a fleeting moment or two, but for that brief instance she'd believed it.
- Sitting up for a fleeting moment, he took a quick gulp from the glass.
- Her heavy lids hid her eyes so well that they were seen only momentarily, like the fleeting glimpse of water in a deep well.
- The writer aims to take those fleeting, ephemeral, sensual moments and transform them into something rich, coherent and meaningful.
Synonyms brief, transient, short-lived, short, momentary, sudden, cursory, transitory, ephemeral, fugitive, evanescent, fading, vanishing, flying, fly-by-night, passing, flitting, here today and gone tomorrow, temporary, impermanent, short-term, rapid, quick, swift, rushed literary fugacious
Derivatives noun There were writers I'd never heard of, proving the fleetingness of fame. Example sentencesExamples - I loved how it was scathing look at celebrity and fleetingness of it.
- A lot of my songs are about death and the fleetingness of life.
- The pain of life's beauty and fleetingness was something Eliot longed to put on hold.
- In the late fifties, for example, making art designed to live only in the present could embody a radical faith in fleetingness.
Rhymes beating, greeting, Keating, meeting, self-defeating, sweeting Definition of fleeting in US English: fleetingadjectiveˈflēdiNGˈflidɪŋ Lasting for a very short time. hoping to get a fleeting glimpse of a whale underwater Example sentencesExamples - Those joyful and fleeting moments in the streets give us a brief glimpse of what our worlds could be like.
- It is in those unique dialogues, in those brief and fleeting moments, that we express ourselves and share our unique inner lives with others.
- Dousing her face and neck, she gazed for a fleeting moment into the water, her thoughts momentarily blank.
- Sitting up for a fleeting moment, he took a quick gulp from the glass.
- His smirk turned into a smile, for the briefest of fleeting moments, before he rose from the table, and walked away.
- For a few minutes, no not minutes, hope was only there for a fleeting moment or two, but for that brief instance she'd believed it.
- And for that brief, fleeting moment, it almost didn't seem so bad.
- The writer aims to take those fleeting, ephemeral, sensual moments and transform them into something rich, coherent and meaningful.
- A rifle cracked behind Swift and for one fleeting moment he thought he was dead, he lay still waiting for the pain.
- Joe looked up and for a fleeting moment Adam saw something flit across his eyes.
- But then, of course, those brief moments of revelation were fleeting.
- It's a formidable challenge for a first timer, but don't for one fleeting moment discount the young man's chances of landing what would truly be an outstanding double.
- Suddenly, she saw a rapid, fleeting movement in the row of trees in their right.
- But it was a fleeting glimpse, for at that moment she felt a stirring in the air around her.
- Paul caught a brief, fleeting glimpse of the computer screen.
- Ryan's moments of full body movement were fleeting and two short routines were tantalising in their restraint.
- Instead we can only hope that the odd fleeting moment of inspiration surfaces on what is destined to be an increasingly irrelevant continuance.
- But beyond that, in the grounds I get a fleeting glimpse of what appears to be a parking lot for buses.
- Her heavy lids hid her eyes so well that they were seen only momentarily, like the fleeting glimpse of water in a deep well.
- For one brief moment, I caught a fleeting glimpse of what looked to be hurt in her eyes.
Synonyms brief, transient, short-lived, short, momentary, sudden, cursory, transitory, ephemeral, fugitive, evanescent, fading, vanishing, flying, fly-by-night, passing, flitting, here today and gone tomorrow, temporary, impermanent, short-term, rapid, quick, swift, rushed
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