It could all happen in a fleeting few seconds.
Lord Mandelson's spokesman said the case was discussed in "a fleeting conversation about the prisoner".
Stravinsky claimed he had the idea for the ballet in a "fleeting vision".
In a fleeting fit of rue, I collected clothes to donate in a pile on my bed.
The amount of radiation in a fleeting exposure can be less than the amount of radiation in the environment.
Their deaths, in a fleeting way, compel us to take measure of what has slipped from our own lives.
In fact, he was only a drifter and braggart who wanted to be anything but the "bum" that, in a fleeting flash of honesty, he said he was.
What you noticed was the music's dramatic, ceaseless roil, the otherworldliness of the sounds Mr. Haas imagined, the joyous luminosity in a fleeting tonal chord.
I saw, in a fleeting and disturbing vision, how the drops of sweat moved from the boy's body to Laura's and vice versa.
Or as a song in the movie says, "I found my world in a fleeting moment/and it went up in smoke the same".
