How to use temporary in a sentence

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More sentences with temporary

• Exercise is usually accompanied by a temporary rise in blood pressure.From the entry rise
• Licking their wounds after a temporary defeat, they planned their next move.From the entry defeat
• The memory leak happened because we forgot to destroy the temporary lists.From the entry destroy
• Loud noise can impinge on the eardrum, causing temporary hearing damage.From the entry impinge
• Smoking rates have been going down for a long time, despite a few regional and temporary flutters.From the entry flutter
• You can free up space on your hard disk by deleting temporary files.From the entry free up
• My temporary filling fell out and got lost.From the entry filling
• He divides dyspepsias into accidental, temporary (indigestions) and habitual.From the entry dyspepsia
• The judge issued a temporary ex parte injunction.From the entry ex parte
• If it is absolutely necessary to use public computers, you should plan ahead and forward your e-mail to a temporary, disposable account.From the entry necessary
• The court granted temporary custody to the mother, without prejudice as to the father's right to seek permanent custody at a later hearing.From the entry without prejudice
• This document is temporary and supersedable.From the entry supersedable
• Ruth knew that the whiteheads of her teenage acne were a temporary state of affairs, but that did nothing to quell her distress when an eruption hit just before prom.From the entry whitehead
• Under this triumviral rule, the government entered a temporary period of revitalization.2026 July 15, “Cixi empress dowager of China”, in britannica.com. From the entry triumviral
• While some mistakes have resulted in Riot pulling Agents in the past, those changes were always temporary.2022 June 17, James Carr, “The Real Reason Valorant Is Dropping Its Oldest Map”, in SVG.com, archived from the original on 28 Nov 2022. From the entry vault
• A senior rail source said: "Frankly, no one believes being on the government books is temporary.2020 August 12, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Rail passenger services nationalised in all but name”, in Rail, page 7. From the entry privatise
• Or if you're commitment-phobic, get a temporary blue extension braided into your hair.2019, Susan Hyatt, Bare: A 7-Week Program to Transform Your Body, Get More Energy, Feel Amazing, and Become the Bravest, Most Unstoppable…. From the entry blowout
• The backfiring of Shirtgate created a temporary pause in the Big Panic, and revealed a basic truth.2016, Jerry Barnett, Porn Panic!: Sex and Censorship in the UK. From the entry Shirtgate
• These adhocracies are loose, spontaneously forming, often temporary arrangements that reach across an organization.2015, Clay Spinuzzi, “Becoming All Edge”, in All Edge: Inside the New Workplace Networks, Chicago, Ill.; London: University of Chicago…. From the entry adhocracy
• 'A fling is definitely not serious—it's meant to be temporary and the flingees remain good friends afterwards.'2013, Aorewa McLeod, Who Was That Woman Anyway?. From the entry flingee
• I wrote a letter to the Guild Newsletter apologizing for having disrupted the show, pleading temporary nutso.2012, Harlan Ellison, An Edge in My Voice, →ISBN. From the entry nutso
• Bridgend on a Saturday night has its temporary inflatable hospitals for the stabbings and glassings.2009 January 25, “Letters”, in The Observer. From the entry glassing
• The majority said temporary wardship, which allowed the girl to receive a transfusion, was justified.2009 February 21, Tracey Tyler, “A many-ringed circus”, in Toronto Star. From the entry wardship
• Cafritz, 62, as she sat on a couch in her temporary home this week.2009 August 8, Rachel L. Swarns, “In Collection’s Ashes, a Heritage’s Seeds”, in New York Times. From the entry dysfunctionally
• A number of algal species live epizootically on the branchiopod crustaceans found in temporary ponds.2006, D. Dudley Williams, The Biology of Temporary Waters, page 45. From the entry epizootically
• The drug deal reached among the countries appeared to be a temporary relief to the developing countries.2005, P. K. Vasudeva, World Trade Organization: implications for Indian economy. From the entry drug deal
• I developed temporary potatophobia in eastern Idaho, one of the planet's several potato capitals.2004, Lori Hein, Ribbons of Highway: A Mother-Child Journey Across America, Booklocker.com, →ISBN, page 98. From the entry potatophobia
• If that's not a happener, try to get a temporary passport.2003 November 23, “Photo id for flying between the UK and Ireland”, in soc.culture.irish (Usenet). From the entry happener
• In the economic realm, because of its temporary preponderance, the United States could afford to be openhanded.1995, Robert L. Paarlberg, Leadership Abroad Begins at Home: U.S. Foreign Economic Policy After the Cold War, →ISBN. From the entry openhanded
• It would be pressure tight and would serve as their temporary quarters.1990, David Gump, Space Enterprise: Beyond NASA, New York, N.Y.; Westport, C.T.; London: Praeger, →ISBN, page 190. From the entry lunarcrete
• Both the Jacobins and Lenin believed in a temporary dictatorship of the majority over counterrevolutionary minorities.1985, Alex Callinicos, “Repressive toleration revisited”, in Aspects of Toleration, J. Horton and S. Mendus eds., →ISBN, page 64. From the entry dictatorship of the majority
• A key question to this study is whether the temporary employees are getting assigned the dirty work.1984 October, J.I. Cehn, “Characterization of the temporary radiation workforce at US nuclear power plants”, in Conference on radiation…. From the entry glowboy
• It had been for this reason that his casket was moved here for temporary rest.1981, A Pictorial History of the Republic of China: Its Founding and Development, volume II, Taipei: Modern China Press, →OCLC, page 558. From the entry Fuhsing
• THERE were two temporary employees at Conwy’s Alfredo’s Restaurant last week.1980 December 11, “First-hand experience”, in North Wales Weekly News, Colwyn Bay, →OCLC, page 43, column 3. From the entry Roxalia
• A similar situation exists in temporary or permanently stratified waters of freshwater, brackish and marine environments.1979, S. Golubić, J. Schneider, “Carbonate Dissolution”, in P. A. Trudinger, D. J. Swaine, editors, Biogeochemical Cycling of…. From the entry monimolimnion
• Shanley has accepted the offer of temporary use of the spacious Columban seminary in Milton.1976 February 14, Craig P. Rowland, “Fr. Shanley Crusades for Gay Retreat”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 33, page 1. From the entry Columban
• The "oilspot" technique allows temporary "withdrawals," as long as firm bases or enclaves remain.1970 June 29, Intercontinental Press, volume 8, number 25, page 634. From the entry oilspot
• He came to Hanoi with Huang Hsing, Hu Han-min, and others, where he established a temporary headquarters.1969, King C. Chen, Vietnam and China, 1938-1954, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 16. From the entry Hokow
• The former being purely temporary, qualification of "permanent" was applied to the latter.1941 September, “The Why and the Wherefore: Temporary and Permanent Way”, in Railway Magazine, page 432. From the entry permanent way

Meaning of temporary

1. adjective Not permanent; existing only for a period or periods of time.
2. adjective Existing only for a short time or short times.
3. noun One serving for a limited time; a short-term employee, especially in an office.

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Questions about temporary in a sentence

How do you use temporary in a sentence?

Temporary is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “Sally was put in temporary charge of the department while they searched for a full-time replacement.”

What is a short sentence with temporary?

“This document is temporary and supersedable.”

What does temporary mean?

Temporary means not permanent; existing only for a period or periods of time.