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Example sentences for "temporarily"

Lexicographically close words:
temporal; temporalities; temporall; temporally; temporals; temporary; tempore; temporibus; temporis; temporise
  1. I've thought sometimes, ever since I saw that paper in which they hinted that I was temporarily insane, that they might try to shut me up in an insane asylum.

  2. Die Ferne as such was at least temporarily under control; I had become tired of simply drifting, and whether I should find a home abroad or not, the outlook could hardly be much darker over seas than in my own country.

  3. Many and many times after our good ship had put to sea, and we had all been initiated in our work, I remembered my friend, the saloonkeeper, and temporarily regretted that I had not thrown my lot with his concern.

  4. Revivals and conversions were serviceable merely in reinstating me temporarily in the good graces of my grandmother.

  5. There may be other experiences in life more ecstatic than this one, but I would willingly trade them all temporarily for that first gasp in the open air, and that unfettered tread on the ground, which the discharged prisoner enjoys.

  6. I wondered myself what was best to do, not caring for another runaway trip right away, and temporarily regretting very much that I had been so silly over that picayune essay.

  7. The shells landed back of the American trenches which had been abandoned when the order came to go over the top, and as this ground was temporarily vacant no great harm was done.

  8. Afterward the boys learned that the reason for the failure of their supplies to arrive was due to the fact that their sector was temporarily cut off by an attempted flanking movement on the part of the Germans.

  9. Professor Snodgrass was billeted temporarily in a farmhouse on the edge of a little French village near which the boys were on duty.

  10. And they had loved each other so that his own intelligence, on the higher line, had temporarily paid for it.

  11. Circumstances now drove the Cardinal temporarily to lose sight of the policy which he had pursued for the most part up to this time--that of strict neutrality--and to attempt to convert the peace with France into a permanent alliance.

  12. So, by a very extraordinary turn of affairs, the interests of Charles and of Anne had at least temporarily become identical.

  13. The break-up of the old manorial system, the increase of enclosures for pasturage, and the substitution of convertible husbandry for the old three-field system all served to displace labour, and so temporarily to diminish the demand for it.

  14. But the autumn of 1534 saw several events which served to encourage the King and his minister, and seemed temporarily to postpone the necessity of coming to terms with the Emperor.

  15. Cromwell’s was the moving spirit in it throughout, and Henry really never cordially supported him, but regarded the measure in the light of a disagreeable necessity, temporarily forced upon him by the apparent failure of his own plans.

  16. In fact it almost seems to have blinded him temporarily to the policy that he doubtless intended ultimately to pursue.

  17. Though she temporarily had the King at her feet, no woman of Henry’s Court was really to be less envied.

  18. It was thought that she contracted the disease in the crowded hospital; and when delirium ensued, Irene temporarily relinquished her ward to other nurses, and remained at the boarding-house, in attendance on her friend.

  19. With a shout, the shattered lines sprang upon the foe and forced them temporarily back.

  20. Major Huntingdon had been temporarily assigned to a regiment of infantry after leaving Richmond, and was posted on the right of General Beauregard's lines, commanding one of the lower fords.

  21. In Irene's presence the subject was temporarily tabooed.

  22. While Dost Mahommed held Kabul, Kandahar became temporarily a sort of independent chiefship under two or three of his brothers.

  23. Many of the saps were entirely blocked, and at one time it became necessary temporarily to abandon a portion of the front line.

  24. Greene had not sufficiently recovered from his illness, and his old troops, under Nixon and Heard, were temporarily doing duty with Spencer's command.

  25. Hitchcock, who had temporarily succeeded Nixon in command of the brigade, received the thanks of Washington for himself and for his men in front of Princeton College for their aid and conduct in the action.

  26. Footnote 160: This order was sent at two o'clock through General Wooster, then temporarily in New York, and Mercer received it in the evening near Newark.

  27. Hastily collecting some twenty of the scattered pickets, he made a show of resistance, which temporarily halted the enemy's column.

  28. At the same time he watched the opportunity to inflict upon the enemy some happy counter-stroke that might temporarily raise the spirits of his soldiers and the people.

  29. In Lambeth, six men were engaged temporarily for the purpose of a special inspection.

  30. It tells but the tale of those who have died of disease--it leaves uncounted and untold the far greater number of those who have been either temporarily disabled or maimed for life by disease.

  31. Money is a commodity, and its value is determined like that of other commodities, temporarily by demand and supply, permanently and on the average by cost of production.

  32. All attempts to make out that the laboring-classes as a collective body can not suffer temporarily by the introduction of machinery, or by the sinking of capital in permanent improvements, are, I conceive, necessarily fallacious.

  33. Again, though there are few commodities which are at all times and forever unsusceptible of increase of supply, any commodity whatever may be temporarily so; and with some commodities this is habitually the case.

  34. Pieces of canvas temporarily hung round a berth, for warmth and privacy.

  35. A hawser or rope something smaller than the bower, used to move or hold the ship temporarily during a calm in a river or haven, sheltered from the wind and sea, &c.

  36. Miner's basket; small gabion used temporarily for shelter to riflemen, and placed on the parapet, either to fire through, or for protection from a force placed on a higher level.

  37. Pieces of wood temporarily nailed to the deck to secure objects in bad weather, as guns, deck-load, &c.

  38. A quarter watch kept on deck while the ship rides at single anchor, or remains temporarily in port.

  39. An order to desist temporarily from hauling upon a rope, when it has come to its right position.

  40. This pendant is barely long enough to lower the top-mast temporarily in bad weather, and when the top-mast is high enough for fidding, the purchase is block and block, and cannot lift it higher.

  41. These shells had been manufactured in Birmingham, where Orsini, and some of his companions, had temporarily resided.

  42. Early in the present year the district cities of Yuydo, Tsikee, and Ftmghwa were temporarily occupied by the British troops; and the Chinese made a bold but ineffectual attempt to recover Ningpo.

  43. The temporarily vanquished Neapolitans returned to the contest, and the revolution was ingloriously suppressed.

  44. Her silence, gravity, and the religious view she took of the event were strangely in contrast to the vanity, levity, and self-gratulation with which the king talked of his temporarily humbled fortunes.

  45. Many times the Arctic Bird would run upon a riffle (where the water runs very shallow over the gravel), to be temporarily baffled and obliged to back off and seek another course.

  46. On one occasion, when the ship slowly pushed into a cake of melting ice, the contact causing the red paint to gush to the surface, a bright Irishman in the steerage temporarily relieved the monotony by shouting out, "She bleeds at the nose.

  47. It is just above Hoffman's Ferry, nine English or three Dutch miles west of Schenectady; there they temporarily entrenched themselves.

  48. Margaret suggested that Mr. Van Torp might possibly have a fancy to wash his hands in hot water at that unusual time of day, and Mrs. Rushmore seemed temporarily satisfied, for apparently she had not thought of this explanation.

  49. Joe’s oar on his arm, temporarily disabling him.

  50. An eccentric band had snapped with a report like a pistol, and the Nomad was temporarily out of commission.

  51. The stammering boy, as was usual with him in stress of circumstances, had temporarily overcome his impediment in speech.

  52. In their excitement, prudence was temporarily thrown to the winds.

  53. Although the priesthood was temporarily diminished by the pestilence of 1349, clerks acting as chantry priests were again numerous during the fifteenth century.

  54. Why the priest came up from the country to Knightsbridge does not appear; it would seem, however, that the Norfolk manor was temporarily in the king’s hands, so that possibly the crown bailiff procured his removal.

  55. His fortune temporarily had been swept away.

  56. She cared for me no more than for a friend temporarily afflicted.

  57. He had come back to her because she was alone, moved temporarily by a feeling of sentimental responsibility.

  58. I've lost the use of my eyes temporarily by my own fault.

  59. Several settlers were temporarily located on the flat where Clarkston now stands, Robert Bracken apparently being the first.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "temporarily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.