Sentence examples for transitory thing from inspiring English sources
The assumption that high oil prices were a transitory thing has been widespread in the economy.
Despite knowing the signs, I thought that it was just a transitory thing – the ups and downs of everyday life.
The printed newspaper is a transitory thing, but uncorrected errors live on in perpetuity on the website.
For the apocalyptic Christian, sights set firmly on heavenly life, the earth might indeed be a finite and transitory thing, what William Blake wonderfully called a "mundane egg".
"What we are seeing is that the business community and the banking community out on the ground see this as a transitory thing," John Canally, an economist for LPL Financial, said.
Languages are constantly in flux, but it takes a rather long view to show just what a contingent and transitory thing a language can be at any point in time.
"He's emphasizing transitory things but not the big trend," Kubarych says.
During your college years, a frightening premium is placed on having a lot of insider knowledge about transitory things.
He himself has never got beyond the transitory affair.
Even though I haven't yet had cancer, it makes me quite aware of how transitory the whole thing is".
The sudden decline and ultimate extinction of the proud Heike, whose members had held the highest offices of the imperial court, illustrates the Buddhist philosophy of the transitory nature of all things; it invites the readers to seek deliverance from the world of sufferings through a faith that will take them to a land of eternal felicity at the moment of their death.
