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

The march of science has always consisted in gradually eliminating these provisory conceptions and in reducing the number of causes.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882 by Various

To enact which provisory character, so unspeakably important, might its whole faculties but have sufficed; and so a peaceable, gradual, well-conducted Abdication and Domine-dimittas have been the issue!

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

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 White, Andrew Dickson