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How to use the word Transient in a Sentence?

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Amidst transient trends, be timeless; choose lasting legacy over temporary popularity.

Aloo Denish Obiero

added by Aloo-Denish
17 days ago

They closed the transient 5th Avenue Motel and now where will they go? They came from all over to stay for a night or a month or whatever they could afford, however they can afford it – and now it’s gone, broken windows boarded up, chain link fence surrounding it like it’s a dog with scurvy. The transient hotel drained pale, pissing in an empty ashtray.

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

In the same way that when the distinction [ was ] made between Southern Resident killer whales, that shaped the understanding of their needs in terms of conservation or threats they faced, if indeed there are two distinct related populations of transient killer whales, they presently have different needs as well.

Andrew Trites

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Mr. Chansley is diagnosed with mental health vulnerabilities, including transient schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, anxiety and depression exacerbated by socio stressors.

Albert Watkins

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

One of the major challenges facing Sidharth Kaushal policy in recent years has been how to demonstrate that its presence in the region is more than transient, and that its forces can support allies at the speed of relevance, the broad message of Chinese policy to regional actors has been that the US Navy may come and go but China is a permanent feature of their security environment.

Sidharth Kaushal

Found on CNN
3 years ago

For the first time in history, the rational and the good are fully armed in the battle against evil. Here we finally find the answer to our paradox; now we can understand the nature of the social power held by evil. Ultimately, the evil, the irrational, truly has no power. The evil men’s control of morality is transient; it lives on borrowed time made possible only by the errors of the good. In time, as more honest men grasp the truth, evil’s stranglehold will be easily broken.

Andrew Bernstein

added by Normando
3 years ago

Women who are having a rough time during menopause with lots of hot flashes need to say,' You know what -- could this be a little more than just a nuisance ?' we used to think of hot flashes as transient and benign, but we're finding out now that they're neither.

Stephanie Faubion

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We used to think of hot flashes as transient and benign, but we're finding out now that they're neither.

Stephanie Faubion

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Cost is a driving factor, the decrease in religious restrictions is another one, and it's a very transient world we live in today.

Mike Nicodemus

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The most important risk is that people and patients rely on unproven methods and refrain from using evidence-based methods, patients lose time and money by relying on useless methods that can, at best, provide placebo response which is usually transient. Some alternative medicine methods, including TCM, involve side effects, especially herbal extracts.

Dan Larhammer

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The so-called transient lunar phenomena have been known since the 1950s, but they have not been sufficiently systematically and long-term observed.

Professor Hakan Kayal

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

There are not that many medical conditions that produce transient, recurrent, and highly-stereotyped neurological symptoms and epileptic seizures top that list of diagnoses to consider, this case, however, produced a particular challenge because [ the ] patient initially only described the cyclical pattern of sweating, not neurological symptoms. It wasn't until a spell was directly observed that alterations of behavior, seen as slowed verbal responses, was recognized to accompany the episodes of intense sweating.

Christopher Ransom

Found on CNN
5 years ago

In our paper, we replicated experimentally in monkeys a situation that [was] similar to the 2009 influenza pandemic, where a new strain of influenza unexpectedly emerged and current vaccines offered little or no protection, we vaccinated the monkeys with the same antigens included in the inactivated vaccine that year, but then also added, via our DNA vaccine, the genetic code for conserved influenza antigens. When we challenged the monkeys with the 2009 pandemic strain of influenza, we saw significant protection in the group that got the vaccine. They experienced only a transient low infection that was quickly cleared, when compared to the group that didn’t get the vaccine.

Professor Deborah Fuller

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

No community standing alone … can solve the issue by themselves, the gangs are too large, they’re too transient and they do, in fact, move from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.

John McCarthy

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

But even if a technical reprieve could be in store, potential USD strength and mild market sentiment despite a significant plunge suggest any oversold relief will be transient, and fraught with bouts of volatility, hence, it will be very difficult to trade.

Hao Hong

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Had we had cleaner lists, had we had not such a transient population, we would be focused more on the volunteer recruitment.

Jorge Neri

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Our partners in the VAPR program are developing a lot of structurally sound transient materials whose mechanical properties have exceeded our expectations.

Troy Olsson

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Man's life is short and transitory because they devote most of their lives also to what is transient and momentary.

L.F. Magister

added by L.F. Magister
8 years ago

What you see with your eyes are transient and ephemeral, what you see through your heart is everlasting and eternal.

Debasish Mridha, M.D.

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Skid Row has become less transient, the history of skid row goes back to a transient neighborhood associated with the railroad. The true definition of transient is short term. Now it's long term. It's become a neighborhood.

Ryan Navales

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Constantin Stanislavski

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Charles Baudelaire

added by anonymous
9 years ago

“Speciation does not necessarily promote evolutionary change; rather, speciation 'gathers in' and guards evolutionary change by locking and stabilization for sufficient geological time within a Darwinian individual of the appropriate scale. If a change in a local population does not gain such protection, it becomes—to borrow Dawkins's metaphor at a macroevolutionary scale—a transient duststorm in the desert of time, a passing cloud without borders, integrity, or even the capacity to act as a unit of selection, in the panorama of life's phylogeny.”

Stephen Jay Gould

added by anonymous
10 years ago

A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development.

Agnes Repplier

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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