provisory
Example Sentences
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My feelings of safety and belonging are still highly provisory.
From The Guardian • Oct. 21, 2020
The airline seats are arranged in a group and function as a provisory sofa for the volunteers.
From Slate • Mar. 13, 2015
Marshal Serrano established there his modest headquarters as regent of a provisory kingdom, and there lived Amadeo, who had the spirit to quit a throne which he could not occupy with dignity.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 by Various
The march of science has always consisted in gradually eliminating these provisory conceptions and in reducing the number of causes.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882 by Various
If yet in time—ay, such provisory parenthesis was in my mind at the moment.
From The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Reid, Mayne
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
