TEMPORARY in a Sentence

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To each of the passengers his seat was his temporary home, and most of the passengers were slatternly housekeepers.

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 Meanings and Examples of TEMPORARY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
temporary
 a.  not permanent; lasting for only a limited period of time
Classic Sentence: (63 in 5 pages)
1  And as for Suellen and Carreen--they think all this is just a temporary matter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
2  Hard times were just temporary.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
3  She knew that to Gerty and Mrs. Fisher she was only passing through a temporary period of probation, since they believed that the apprenticeship she was serving at Mme.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
4  To each of the passengers his seat was his temporary home, and most of the passengers were slatternly housekeepers.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  Guy Pollock wrote to a cousin, a temporary army captain, a confiding and buoyant lad who took Carol to tea-dances, and laughed, as she had always wanted some one to laugh, about nothing in particular.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
6  Kennicott and Main Street had drained her self-reliance; the presence of Hugh made her feel temporary.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
7  Even her flight had been but the temporary courage of panic.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
8  It seemed only a temporary erection used in port.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
9  They made a sort of temporary servants' hall of the high and mighty cabin.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
10  But by desperate endeavor we at last shot into a temporary opening; then giving way rapidly, and at the same time earnestly watching for another outlet.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
11  That direful mishap was at the bottom of his temporary recluseness.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 106. Ahab's Leg.
12  Nor did such soothing scenes, however temporary, fail of at least as temporary an effect on Ahab.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 114. The Gilder.
13  He was alone, if the solitary sentinel who paced the mound be excepted; for the artillerists had hastened also to profit by the temporary suspension of their arduous duties.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15
14  A few fragments of rafters were reared against a blackened wall; and when Uncas had covered them slightly with brush, the temporary accommodations were deemed sufficient.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
15  Instead of pursuing his way among those lodges where Heyward had already made his unsuccessful search, his companion turned aside, and proceeded directly toward the base of an adjacent mountain, which overhung the temporary village.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
Example Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  They just reached a temporary agreement.
2  This is Sara's first proper job - she usually does temporary work just for the money.
3  She suffered temporary loss of vision after being struck on the head.
4  We apologize for the temporary loss of vision.
5  New members will be issued with a temporary identity card.
6  The permanent collection is displayed on the first floor, whilst the ground floor houses temporary exhibitions.
7  Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
8  The court acquitted Campbell on the grounds of temporary insanity.
9  Her going on maternity leave will create a temporary vacancy.
10  The ceasefire will only provide a temporary solution to the crisis.
11  In his defense he alleged temporary insanity.
12  He had been termed a temporary employee.
13  The government will provide temporary accommodation for up to three thousand people.
14  The new bridge was erected as a temporary measure to replace the one which was destroyed by floods.
15  The tablets brought temporary respite from the excruciating pain.