flash in the pan in a sentence

Examples

1. Sometimes a flash in the pan is a good thing.
2. We are not looking for a flash in the pan.
3. But no one is publicly proclaiming that Syncrude is a flash in the pan.
4. Still, recent gains haven't been a flash in the pan.
5. A flash in the pan or a real title contender?
6. Maybe more importantly, it showed that the Lightning are no flash in the pan.
7. In 1974 Cork proved that their success was not a flash in the pan.
8. I don't want to be a flash in the pan.
9. There were plenty of big talkers who ended up being flashes in the pan.
10. Time will tell whether this is a watershed or a flash in the pan,