a fleeting instant
Frequency: 5.82.5 per million words
emphasizes the transient and quickly passing nature of a moment
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Examples (10)
- For a fleeting instant, he thought he saw her face in the crowd.
- The joy of victory lasted only a fleeting instant before reality set in.
- Life is made up of countless fleeting instants, each one precious.
- She captured the bird's flight in a fleeting instant with her camera.
- In that fleeting instant, their eyes met across the crowded room.
- The feeling of peace was but a fleeting instant in his troubled mind.
- He wished he could hold onto that fleeting instant forever.
- The beauty of the sunset is a fleeting instant that quickly fades.
- Every fleeting instant of childhood passes too quickly.
- The sudden silence was a fleeting instant before the storm broke.