transitorily
Example Sentences
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Man has not been able to maintain this position: for the ideal is realized but transitorily.
From The Life of Jesus by Ernest Renan
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
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
There is no slavery so abhorrent as that of the menial who has no thought beyond the narrow sphere of his servitude, and the little pleasure which his light heart may transitorily enjoy.
From The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth by Timothy Templeton
There is no merit in mastering the feelings which only lightly and transitorily skim over the surface of the soul.
From Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller by Friedrich Schiller
