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 Corwin, Edward Samuel

Wasn't it my own phrase to speak of "that greater mind in men, in which we are but moments and transitorily lit cells?"

From The New Machiavelli by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Man has not been able to maintain this position: for the ideal is realized but transitorily.

From The Life of Jesus by Renan, Ernest

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)

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