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 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

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

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 Johnson, Willis Fletcher