momentarily
Example Sentences
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Mr. Foster dismisses their preoccupations with bionic implants or humanoid robots as MacGuffins—Alfred Hitchcock’s term for a device that momentarily advances a movie plot but ultimately fails to develop into anything.
The company says it believes the idle line, last used 50 years ago, may have momentarily reenergized from a surge in electricity on the live lines running parallel to it, sparking the blaze.
From Los Angeles Times
The Bruins were suddenly up by a point and their defensive woes from earlier in the game were momentarily forgotten.
From Los Angeles Times
While security camera footage shows the men momentarily loading the works into a van, the pair later removed the artwork and briefly ditched it on the street in a chaotic sequence of events.
“I thought we talked about this,” Troll A says, his weapon momentarily dropping to his side.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
