transitorily
Example Sentences
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Something of the old spirit occasionally flashed forth, but fitfully and transitorily only, like the flicker of a lamp before its extinction.
From The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion by Dent, John Charles
On ignition it becomes lemon yellow, and transitorily darker, even brown, and passes into the sexquioxide.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. by Various
It is so difficult for human beings to live together; nay, it is so difficult for them to associate, however transitorily, and even under the most favourable conditions, without some shadow of mutual offence.
From The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by Gissing, George
A corresponding germinal condition, the two-layered gastrula, occurs transitorily in the embryological history of all the other Metazoa, from the lowest Cnidaria and Vermes up to man.
From Monism as Connecting Religion and Science A Man of Science by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August
You remember the profound words in our Lord's pregnant parable of the seeds, how one class which transitorily was Christian, had for its characteristic that immediately with joy they received the word.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke by Maclaren, Alexander
