Get to know Fleetingly better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Fleetingly meaning
in a fleeting manner; transiently
Using Fleetingly
- The main meaning on this page is: in a fleeting manner; transiently
- In the example corpus, fleetingly often appears in combinations such as: only fleetingly.
Context around Fleetingly
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 6 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Fleetingly
- In this selection, "fleetingly" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, loved, wondered, divers, yet, rare and shows stand out and add context to how "fleetingly" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include about it fleetingly and brings back fleetingly the memory. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "fleetingly" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with fleetingly
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Most antimatter exists only fleetingly in the Universe, for fractions of seconds. (12 words)
They will end up in emergency wards just thinking about it, fleetingly. (12 words)
This meant that when sleeping the machine woke very fleetingly every 17m 4s. (13 words)
Few selection decisions have created as much debate as Smith’s creative partnership with Farrell, which has fired only fleetingly, yet was seen by Borthwick’s predecessor Jones as worth ongoing investment. (32 words)
They have an uncanny ability to recognise faces, remembering people they have not seen for decades, who have substantially changed in appearance, and who they have only fleetingly encountered. (29 words)
The video also fleetingly shows us how the man trying to reform had a past life in which he indulged in thuggery and other anti-social activities. (27 words)
Example sentences (14)
Few selection decisions have created as much debate as Smith’s creative partnership with Farrell, which has fired only fleetingly, yet was seen by Borthwick’s predecessor Jones as worth ongoing investment.
Most antimatter exists only fleetingly in the Universe, for fractions of seconds.
They document silhouettes and fashion—natural Black hair, cute preppy shirts, feminine outfits—in the way that street photography does: fleetingly.
And in today’s hyper-online, somewhat socially inept society, that’s a fleetingly rare commodity.
But of course it was better to have loved fleetingly and lost than to never have loved (or encountered Yvette in English) at all.
The video also fleetingly shows us how the man trying to reform had a past life in which he indulged in thuggery and other anti-social activities.
They will end up in emergency wards just thinking about it, fleetingly.
I wondered, fleetingly, if the whole storm trooper thing was a ruse, whether the man was actually intelligent, even educated, but just as quickly dismissed the thought.
They have an uncanny ability to recognise faces, remembering people they have not seen for decades, who have substantially changed in appearance, and who they have only fleetingly encountered.
I had fleetingly imagined that Jane and her allies organized a series of real teach-ins at a local campus and streamed the contents.
They also lived their lives as individuals, in details only fleetingly revealed by the text.
Today it only appears to divers fleetingly, like a strange dream, before vanishing back into the deep.
The sounds are interwoven in a complex score which brings back fleetingly the memory of all forms of language.
This meant that when sleeping the machine woke very fleetingly every 17m 4s.
Common combinations with fleetingly
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: