transitorily
Example Sentences
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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
There is no merit in mastering the feelings which only lightly and transitorily skim over the surface of the soul.
From Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller by Friedrich Schiller
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
A corresponding germinal condition, the two-layered gastrula, occurs transitorily in the embryological history of all the other Metazoa, from the lowest Cnidaria and Vermes up to man.
From Monism as Connecting Religion and Science A Man of Science by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
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 Edward Samuel Corwin
