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Example sentences for "transitional"

Lexicographically close words:
transire; transistor; transit; transiting; transition; transitioning; transitions; transitive; transitorie; transitoriness
  1. They must undergo obliteration as do the transitional forms offered by the animal series.

  2. These, though they are truly transitional as respects the type from which they have proceeded, are permanent as regards the locality in which they occur, being, in fact, the incarnation of its physical influences.

  3. The transitional forms which an animal type is capable of producing on a passage north and south are much more numerous than those it can produce on a passage east and west.

  4. A Transitional National Government (TNG) was created in August 2000 in Arta, Djibouti which was attended by a broad representation of Somali clans.

  5. Yet in the present case the transitional loss to the family or to the larger social body is exceedingly slight compared even with the immediate gain.

  6. Before the earliest example of this transitional species was produced, English tragedy had directly connected its beginnings with classical models.

  7. The style in general is Early English, but the west door and the restored entrance from the nave to the cloisters are fine examples of transitional Norman.

  8. Ricci's I Tre Tiranni (before 1530) seems still to belong to the same transitional species.

  9. But the histories to be found among the plays of Shakespeare and one or two other Elizabethans are true dramas, and it would be inconvenient to include these in the transitional species of those known as chronicle histories.

  10. The crypt embodies remains of the founder's work; the rest is Transitional Norman and Early English in style.

  11. The New English Dictionary finds a transitional sense in the use of the name "jack" for mechanical figures which strike the hours on a bell of a clock.

  12. The podesta marks an essentially transitional state in civic government, and his intervention paved the way for despotism.

  13. But it is interesting to record what payments Germany did actually effect during the transitional period.

  14. But the works of the archaic and transitional periods are far better exemplified at Munich and in London; while the fragments of Pheidias cannot of course compare with the magnificent series in the British Museum.

  15. Every visitor to Paris should therefore pay great attention to this important collection, which forms the best transitional link in Western Europe between Gothic Mediævalism and the modern spirit.

  16. It exhibits throughout that earlier =Romanesque= style which formed the transitional term between classical architecture and the pointed arches of the Gothic period.

  17. Here he modelled with broad, flat planes of sooty black and chalky white, between which there were no transitional tones.

  18. They were one of those transitional generations whose vitality is spent in a stupendous endeavour to conceive before the time is ripe.

  19. It is true that there is a transitional stage, when one feels the cold smarting in one's toes, and tries to get rid of it by stamping the feet.

  20. In these transitional regions, where the temperature of the water is always very low, the thermometer is a very doubtful guide.

  21. Thus, in Stephen, we are called to witness another great transitional moment.

  22. Each of them filled the same transitional place--more vividly marked indeed in Stephen, and properly so--but each of them filled it.

  23. The transitional period is shown by the ornament remaining in the right-hand clock in the lower spandrels.

  24. It exhibits the transitional stage before marquetry entirely supplanted the older style.

  25. We can hardly imagine bucolic placidity quickening to intellectual aims without imagining social aims as the transitional phase.

  26. To do things musingly, and by small degrees, seemed, indeed, to be a duty in the Egdon valleys at this transitional hour, for there was that in the condition of the heath itself which resembled protracted and halting dubiousness.

  27. In fact, precisely at this transitional point of its nightly roll into darkness the great and particular glory of the Egdon waste began, and nobody could be said to understand the heath who had not been there at such a time.

  28. According to Mohl and others, some tendrils consist of modified branches: I have not observed any such cases, and know nothing of their transitional states, but these have been fully described by Fritz Muller.

  29. In this case we likewise have many interesting transitional states.

  30. In the time of Juliana, who probably succeeded Mary, and was certainly abbess for about thirty years before her death in 1199, the transitional work in the clerestory of the nave was carried out.

  31. All birds previously known presented a very uniformly organized group, and showed no striking transitional forms to other vertebrate classes, not even to the nearly related reptiles.

  32. But they deserve to form a special class, because they represent important transitional forms from the Pterideae and Lepidophytes towards higher plants, and must be regarded as among the direct progenitors of the flowering plants.

  33. By this transitional series the liverworts show their direct derivation from the Thallophytes, and more especially from the Green Algae.

  34. Nations are only transitional forms of humanity; they must undergo obliteration, as do the transitional forms offered by the animal series.

  35. The DOP provides that Israel will retain responsibility during the transitional period for external security and for internal security and public order of settlements and Israelis.

  36. At the south angle of the Rue Montmartre the majestic transitional church of St. Eustache towers over the Halles.

  37. The scenery now greatly improves and becomes beautiful after passing Mickleham, a pretty village with a Transitional church.

  38. The base of the tower, the choir transepts, and the fragment still remaining of the nave are Norman and Transitional of very noble and dignified proportions.

  39. Clapham has a Transitional church containing memorials of the Shelley family.

  40. Here is another church of the same period with a Transitional tower and a Norman font.

  41. This is another beautifully placed village with a Transitional and Early English church in an adjacent wood and, for strangers, rather difficult to find.

  42. Ditchling, a mile further, has a very fine Transitional and Early English church which will repay a visit.

  43. About two miles east of this village, and close to Angmering station, are the twin villages of East and West Preston; the former has a Norman and Transitional church with one of the four stone spires in Sussex.

  44. The upper part of the tower is Transitional with certain later additions.

  45. At Rustington, a mile farther, is a more interesting Early English church with a Transitional tower.

  46. The base of the walls of the church date from this period, rising through Transitional to Perpendicular.

  47. Westbourne, one mile north of Emsworth, has a fine Transitional church with a large number of monuments and an imposing avenue of yews.

  48. The road now goes directly west and in a mile reaches Tillington, which has a Transitional church modernized and practically rebuilt by the Earl of Egremont; here are several interesting tombs and brasses.

  49. The chasm between unconscious life and thought is deep and impassable, and no transitional phenomena are to be found by which, as by a bridge, we can span it over.

  50. But the main purpose of my brief allusion is to introduce the fact that, as far as any evidence to the contrary goes, we have an absolutely sudden appearance of man on the scene, and no kind of transitional form.

  51. The following is a list of some of the intermediate species in their transitional order:--I.

  52. It is important, however, that it is precisely the transitional families which present intermediate forms both as larvæ and as imagines.

  53. Considered phyletically, these larvæ are by no means necessarily transitional to the origination of the flies.

  54. After another period of 4-5 days the third moult takes place, and there now commences a dimorphism which will perhaps be better designated as variability, since the two extremes are connected by transitional forms.

  55. A parallel movement was the conversion of the native towns into Roman colonies and municipalities, often through the transitional stage of Latin communities, a status that now existed in the provinces only.

  56. In the Po valley there is a close approach to the continental climate of central Europe, with a marked difference between summer and winter temperatures and clearly marked transitional periods of spring and autumn.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "transitional" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    active; convertible; driving; impelling; intermediate; mobile; modifiable; motive; motor; moving; passing; propellant; propelling; provisional; resolvable; stirring; transitional; traveling


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    transitional forms; transitional government