What is "shortlived"

Usage examples of "shortlived".

He could build up a charge at a terminal, mold it into something like ball lightning and animallike, and send that shortlived artifact a little distance to do his will.

El spun a hand vortex to catch it and sent it back at her, diving away when its fury proved too powerful for his defense, and broke his vortex apart in a snarling explosion that awakened shortlived fires here and there about the floor of the Hall.

This was merely a shortlived delay, one that would do the resourceful mammal no good.

She would make that responsibility shortlived, for she had no wish to rule her kin.

You have not concealed from me your melancholy disdain for these shortlived splendors, nor for this court, which will disperse after my death.