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for a short time
adverb as in momentarily
Example Sentences
The birth was traumatic and Debbie was having absent seizures - where you lose awareness of your surroundings for a short time.
The hospital stopped operating at the end of the 20th century, and for a short time the building housed a hardware store, according to the local research site The South LA Recap.
There is limited supply of these drugs and because of their huge expense, they are available on the NHS to relatively few people and for a short time.
"Looking back over the course of 12 months there were lots of tiny incidents. The most significant was returning from a Bruce Springsteen concert and for a short time I had a sensation on one side of my face", Maria recalled.
I found that for people like Sharon, who had believed the clip was real, even for a short time, it stayed with them - especially when the message echoed genuine experiences of racism and discrimination.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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