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
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 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
Zinc plates are also employed as provisory supports instead of glass, opal or porcelain plates.
From Photographic Reproduction Processes by Peter C. Duchochois
