transitorily

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Isbister looked at him and wondered transitorily if some complex Providence had indeed brought them together that afternoon.

From When the Sleeper Wakes by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Thus the young lion is spotted, during his first year, with dark spots on its lighter ground, and transitorily shows the livery that is most common in the genus.

From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 by Various

There is no slavery so abhorrent as that of the menial who has no thought beyond the narrow sphere of his servitude, and the little pleasure which his light heart may transitorily enjoy.

From The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth by Templeton, Timothy

On ignition it becomes lemon yellow, and transitorily darker, even brown, and passes into the sexquioxide.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. by Various

You remember the profound words in our Lord's pregnant parable of the seeds, how one class which transitorily was Christian, had for its characteristic that immediately with joy they received the word.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke by Maclaren, Alexander