transitorily
Example Sentences
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Man has not been able to maintain this position: for the ideal is realized but transitorily.
From The Life of Jesus by Renan, Ernest
The young of our surviving elephants only exhibit transitorily the family tendency.
From More Science From an Easy Chair by Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir
There is no slavery so abhorrent as that of the menial who has no thought beyond the narrow sphere of his servitude, and the little pleasure which his light heart may transitorily enjoy.
From The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth by Templeton, Timothy
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 Maclaren, Alexander
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)
