transitorily
Example Sentences
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Isbister looked at him and wondered transitorily if some complex Providence had indeed brought them together that afternoon.
From When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
My mind felt, at times, quite confused; at other times, strange ideas shot transitorily through it, with the vividness of lightning; but they were only coruscations, and left no impressions.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III by Various
Something of the old spirit occasionally flashed forth, but fitfully and transitorily only, like the flicker of a lamp before its extinction.
From The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion by John Charles Dent
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
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
