transitorily
Example Sentences
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Variations caused by the factors mentioned act only transitorily, and the pressure shortly returns to normal.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Louis Marshall Warfield
Man has not been able to maintain this position: for the ideal is realized but transitorily.
From The Life of Jesus by Ernest Renan
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 George Gissing
Wasn't it my own phrase to speak of "that greater mind in men, in which we are but moments and transitorily lit cells?"
From The New Machiavelli by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
I make account to be in London, transitorily, about the end of August.
From Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by John Donne
