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

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

The next point at which a stand was made was the assertion that the condemnation of Galileo was "provisory"; but this proved a more treacherous shelter than the others.

From History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by White, Andrew Dickson

Still there remains an expression in the Arr�t, that it is provisory only.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson