transitorily
Example Sentences
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I make account to be in London, transitorily, about the end of August.
From Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by John Donne
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
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
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 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
