How to use momentary in a sentence

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• Let us hope that this is a momentary blip and does not imply a permacrisis of deceit.2022 December 12, Paul Warren, “Language Matters: Going into goblin mode to see you through a permacrisis”, in Stuff, archived from the…. From the entry permacrisis
• That momentary hesitation made Correa think he could take off for second.2017, Michael Clair, “Andrelton Simmons used a great deke and some great throws to fool the Astros out of an inning”, in Cut 4. From the entry deke
• No doubt this momentary gain is bought at a ruinous after-cost.2010, Walter Bagehot, Physics and Politics, →ISBN, page 73. From the entry after-cost
• She became a momentary captive of Campbell's, wondering where was his beakiness, his surliness?2002, Helen Duncan, Kate Rice: Prospector, →ISBN, page 119. From the entry beakiness
• The studied integrity encourages, I think, a momentary degrammaticizing of the hierarchies of the sentence.2001, Chris Beyers, A history of free verse, Univ of Arkansas Pr, →ISBN. From the entry degrammaticize
• For entrophy is the real cosmic wave, and evolution only a momentary tellurian ripple within it.1970, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, edited by Walter Hooper, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics, Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B.…. From the entry tellurian
• But it was only a momentary check, like the tense silence between blasts of thunder.1958 June 17, Chinua Achebe, chapter 22, in Things Fall Apart, London: Heinemann, →OCLC. From the entry onrush
• A momentary coolness from the dark Flows inward on the tender-handed breeze.1949, Roy Earl Teele, Through a Glass Darkly: A Study of English Translations of Chinese Poetry, page 105. From the entry tender-handed
• We could determine the lifetime well-being of such beings (as the sum of momentary well-being arising from pains and pleasures).2025, Matthew D. Adler, Risk, Death, and Well-Being: The Ethical Foundations of Fatality Risk Regulation (Population-Level Bioethics…. From the entry interbeing
• I hopped into the shower bath (shath?) and enjoyed some momentary relief as the warm water seemed to help.2021 December 29, Laban Ditchburn, “The Angel of Death”, in Bet on You, Laban Ditchburn, →ISBN, page 71. From the entry shath
• A momentary power spike had caused a blip, forcing the backup system to shunt Carella's current work into a safety file.2010, Don Pendleton, Mike Linaker, “Prologue”, in System Corruption (Don Pendleton’s The Executioner), Toronto, Ont.: Gold Eagle, →ISBN. From the entry shunt
• It represented momentary, isolated, individual acts of willful evil.1987, Martin E. Marty, A Short History of Christianity, page 127. From the entry mistwist
• Then, as usual, the sheep broke into "Four legs good, two legs bad!" and the momentary awkwardness was smoothed over.1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […]…. From the entry break into
• In particular was the momentary departure for Vietnam of a brigade of the 82d Airborne Division from Fort Bragg—with LBJ shaking hands at planeside.2012, Douglas Kinnard, Adventures in Two Worlds: Vietnam General and Vermont Professor, →ISBN. From the entry planeside
• Marshal shivered slightly in response to the icy brush of unaccustomed fear, a momentary chill that quickly suffocated in the bakeoven heat.1988, L. Christian Balling, Champion, New York, N.Y.: The Atlantic Monthly Press, →ISBN, page 7. From the entry bakeoven
• CROGGLE (Grennell) Roughly meaning shocked into momentary physical or mental paralysis; a portmanteau-word, apparently, combining "crushed" and "goggled", and usually passive or reflexive in application.1959, Richard "Dick" Harris Eney, Fancyclopedia II, Croggle. From the entry croggle
• When a heroine's tragic flaw takes the form of uncontrollable love for an outlaw, the paths of momentary glory can lead but to defeat.1948 May 31, Harold V. Cohen, "'Green Grass of Wyoming'" (film review), Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, p. 28 (retrieved 5 July 2012). From the entry tragic flaw
• When, almost immediately, the telephone rang inside and the butler left the porch Daisy seized upon the momentary interruption and leaned toward me.1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 1, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN. From the entry complacency
• “This is the idea of catabolic collapse: that what we’re living through is a series of crises, sometimes followed by momentary resolution, but the long-term trend is downturn.2025 June 26, Sam Wolfson, “On r/collapse, people are ‘kept abreast of the latest doom’. Its moderators say it’s not for everyone”, in The…. From the entry catabolic
• This paper built on previous work investigating the stopped-clock illusion: The momentary sensation, when glancing at a clock with a silently advancing second hand, that the clock has stopped.2016, Kielan Yarrow, Derek H. Arnold, “The Timing of Experiences: How Far Can We Get with Simple Brain Time Models?”, in Bruno Mölder…. From the entry stopped-clock illusion
• A momentary silence followed, and then I heard tiny gasps and frightened tskings, scuffling footsteps, the rustling of rain slickers, and the annoyed mumbling of the priest.2004, Rosemary Mahoney, The Singular Pilgrim: Travels on Sacred Ground, page 83. From the entry tsking
• Further, the final loss of control may have been precipitated by momentary stopping or starting of the left engine when the airplane was at a reduced airspeed.2002 August 26, National Transportation Safety Board, Crash of Executive Airlines Jetstream 3101, Bear Creek Township, Pennsylvania, May…. From the entry unport
• The duende is a momentary burst of inspiration, the blush of all that is truly alive, all that the performer is creating at a certain moment.1998, Federico García Lorca, Norman Thomas Di Giovanni, In Search of Duende, New Directions, →ISBN, page VIII, →ISBN. From the entry duende
• But it was an empire in the continual throes of a decline which, despite periods of respite and glimpses of momentary recovery, was to prove irreversible.1979, Lord Kinross, The Ottoman Centuries: the Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire, page 616. From the entry Ottoman Empire
• It had cost me a distinct psychological effort to do so, and now that I was shut inside I had a momentary longing for precipitate retreat.1931, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, chapter 6, in The Whisperer in Darkness. From the entry precipitate
• Undoubtedly they were leaning far out of the windows, peering for signals, in momentary relaxation from the strain of nursing the slipping "bullgines" up the hill.1929, The Conductor and Brakeman, volumes 46-47, page 425. From the entry bullgine
• "That is, if"—she paused, knew a momentary longing to draw back, and then stuck to her guns bravely—"I can find some one rich enough to make it worth my while."1922, Agatha Christie, chapter 15, in The Secret Adversary. From the entry stick to one's guns

Meaning of momentary

1. adjective Lasting for only a moment.
2. adjective Happening at every moment; perpetual.
3. adjective Ephemeral or relatively short-lived.

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Questions about momentary in a sentence

How do you use momentary in a sentence?

Momentary is used as an adjective. For example: “Let us hope that this is a momentary blip and does not imply a permacrisis of deceit.”

What is a short sentence with momentary?

“It represented momentary, isolated, individual acts of willful evil.”

What does momentary mean?

Momentary means lasting for only a moment.