transitorily

Example Sentences

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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.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III by Various

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

From More Science From an Easy Chair by Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir

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

From Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by Donne, John

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

Man has not been able to maintain this position: for the ideal is realized but transitorily.

From The Life of Jesus by Renan, Ernest