"Lean," Melody said, trying to catch a fleeting notion.

His thoughtfulness touched her, and she had the fleeting notion that he would always be that kind of man, that he had always been, and she'd never noticed.

He had been there and worked at that, giving him more than a fleeting notion of what it was going to take to change the population's mind in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

They had little medicinal or food value, but the pleasant-smelling flowers pleased her, and she had a fleeting notion to pick some.

Adults commonly dismiss such talk as foolish or fleeting notions, manipulative scare tactics or exaggerations born of immaturity.

I spoke openly of killing myself, a fleeting notion that I had often considered but never before uttered.

Pat Adcock had never been pregnant, had never really wanted to be-oh, sure, maybe now and then there had been a fleeting wistful notion, quickly gone away.

When they got up to go Hilda's fleeting notion of trying to get Lin aside for a little chat evaporated when the Chinese officer whisked him firmly away.

I'd had fleeting notions about it even before that, but my plan really crystallized that day.

The most fleeting notion of drinking a full-fledged, even a semi-fledged, red in August is stupefying.