transitorily
Example Sentences
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The subject-matter is only transitorily within the State and has no permanent habitat therein.
From The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 by Edward Samuel Corwin
Variations caused by the factors mentioned act only transitorily, and the pressure shortly returns to normal.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Louis Marshall Warfield
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
The young of our surviving elephants only exhibit transitorily the family tendency.
From More Science From an Easy Chair by Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester
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 Alexander Maclaren
