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 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

It is so difficult for human beings to live together; nay, it is so difficult for them to associate, however transitorily, and even under the most favourable conditions, without some shadow of mutual offence. 

From The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by Gissing, 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

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 Dent, John Charles