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
The resources of the exchequer were at that time so scanty that Orejon ordered the provisory use of fagots in the construction of the fortifications of Havana.
From The History of Cuba, vol. 1 by Willis Fletcher Johnson
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
To enact which provisory character, so unspeakably important, might its whole faculties but have sufficed; and so a peaceable, gradual, well-conducted Abdication and Domine-dimittas have been the issue!
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
