transitorily

Variations caused by the factors mentioned act only transitorily, and the pressure shortly returns to normal.

I make account to be in London, transitorily, about the end of August.

My mind felt, at times, quite confused; at other times, strange ideas shot transitorily through it, with the vividness of lightning; but they were only coruscations, and left no impressions.

The young of our surviving elephants only exhibit transitorily the family tendency.

Something of the old spirit occasionally flashed forth, but fitfully and transitorily only, like the flicker of a lamp before its extinction.