fleeting
They have seen each other only fleetingly in recent years.
I met him fleetingly in the town centre.
Pierre saw it only fleetingly before it disappeared.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Short in time
abbreviated
at a moment's/two hours'/three weeks', etc. noticeidiom
awhile
be short noticeidiom
bite-sized
blink
bout
brief
dose
in the blink of an eyeidiom
instant
jiffy
mayfly
micro-moment
minute
snatched
split second
transient
transiently
trice

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Temporary

Examples of fleetingly

fleetingly
So here we have oh-prefacing as a feature of turn design which, however fleetingly, can indicate a difficulty about a question.
Personal responsibility enters the picture only fleetingly, in the form of recriminations against oppressive political and social agents.
These last canons are fragments, glimpses caught fleetingly but not recognized, impossible to perceive, ambiguous and obscure.
Particular issues related to generic workers, and users' and carers' involvement with community rehabilitation teams are only mentioned fleetingly.
Women are mentioned only fleetingly in this connection, and then only as passing through.
This 'little metamorphosis', which 'happens fleetingly but unmistakably', is a 'sign of modernist cool'.
The un-manipulated voices emerge only fleetingly amidst a choir of resonated click consonants and elongated vowels.
The effect of the habit, though, was to make things fleetingly holy that would not otherwise seem so.
These in turn can be brought to bear on personae that are fleetingly and momentarily tried on and experimented with in the course of constructing story lines.
In the seventeenth century, mitres, generally retained in heraldry, returned to bishops' heads on their monuments, fleetingly in the 1630s, and substantially between 1660 and 1688.
He saw characters peopling the scenes that might appear only fleetingly in the written text, but were essential to the image of the scene and could not be ignored.
Across the variations in substitute term use, a basic commonality is that the register is spoken fleetingly, as a one-word or one-phrase interruption in normal speaking.
Within the experience of reading the novel, and within the reading scenes that it contains, overlapping formulations of desire do not so much compete as they fleetingly, simultaneously co-exist.
Stable prices are a blessed condition, but one that we in this country have not experienced other than very fleetingly for 50 years.
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