One who stays for only a short time

Usage examples of transient.

Photophobia, and even transient amblyopia, have been observed to follow small doses.

The majority of beatniks who flocked into San Francisco 10 years ago were transients from the East and Midwest.

The Bletch is our local groundskeeper, ancillary services and so forth, the man who sprinkles the potted palms in the background and arranges for the billeting of transients such as yourself.

There was a transient gleam of distrust in the hasty glance of the Bravo, as he shot a look at the undisturbed eye of the innocent being who put this question.

For to be always clad in the burthensome armour of suspicion is more painful and inconvenient, than to run the hazard of suffering now and then a transient injury.

Since the planet happened to be somewhere between somewhere and somewhere else, both somewheres being equally repulsive, the Troopers had naturally chosen to build a transient camp, reppel depple, Senior Officers Whorehouse and this hospital here, on the shores of the great black ocean, tideless and ominous.

Information did diffuse starward, news, images, borne more by transients than by direct communication, and less and less often, but apparently nothing kept deliberately secret.

Safe house, Ethan decided, must be a generic espionage term for any hideout, for Cee took him not to a home but to a cheap hostel reserved for transients with Stationer work permits.

Great Britain suffered no interruption, except from some transient tumults among the tinners of Cornwall, who, being provoked by a scarcity of corn, rose in arms and plundered the granaries of that county.

The house looked unowned, transient, like a picture in a real-estate flyer.

Readings taken moments after the unprompted course adjustment confirmed that some transient gravitational event had indeed taken place.

Under certain circumstances, the membrane surrounding blepharisma disintegrates and comes independently loose, like a cast-off shell, leaving the creature a transient albino.

A great number have been sightings of transients and freight riders and animals, even tree branches scratching at the window, not hadals.

TELEGRAPHY, the first practical use of the transient electrical currents that William Thomson had investigated in the 1850s, quickly became an alternative technology to submarine cables, but never replaced them, even for nonsecret communications.

A malang is the same thing as a darwish, a holy beggar, and even up on top of the Roof of the World there were beggars, both native and transient.