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

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 Reid, Mayne

The resources of the exchequer were at that time so scanty that Orejon ordered the provisory use of fagots in the construction of the fortifications of Havana.

From The History of Cuba, vol. 1 by Johnson, Willis Fletcher