Transient has 3 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Though his stay in Europe was transient, Spenser felt he had learned much more about interactions with other people from traveling than he did at college. | |
| 2. | The life of a person is a transient thing. | |
| 3. | My mother's bad mood is transient. | |
| 4. | Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. | |
| 5. | Mary knows that her main weapons, a beautiful face and a young body, are of transient value. | |
| 6. | Love is transient. | |
| 7. | Everything is transient and therefore sorrowful. | |
| 8. | In this belief Lucy reposed her hope, and went on weaving her enchanted web of fairy tissue, as beautiful and transient as the film of the gossamer when it is pearled with the morning dew and glimmering to the sun. | |
| 9. | Because these transient radio pulses disappear in much less than the blink of an eye, researchers have had a hard time tracking down where they come from, much less determining what kind of object or objects is causing them. |