provisory
Example Sentences
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My feelings of safety and belonging are still highly provisory.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 21, 2020
The airline seats are arranged in a group and function as a provisory sofa for the volunteers.
From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2015
Marshal Serrano established there his modest headquarters as regent of a provisory kingdom, and there lived Amadeo, who had the spirit to quit a throne which he could not occupy with dignity.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 by Various
If yet in time—ay, such provisory parenthesis was in my mind at the moment.
From The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Mayne Reid
The next point at which a stand was made was the assertion that the condemnation of Galileo was "provisory"; but this proved a more treacherous shelter than the others.
From History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by Andrew Dickson White
