Temporal

//ˈtɛm.pə.ɹəl//

"Temporal" in a Sentence (11 examples)

When I swallow I feel an intense pain caused by my elongated temporal styloid process. My condition is called "Eagle Syndrome".

Researchers linked to the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that children and adolescents who tested lower on standardized tests had a lower volume of gray matter in their brains than the norm, and their frontal and temporal lobes developed more slowly.

They have achieved a first step toward that goal by decoding the electrical activity in a region of the brain, called the superior temporal gyrus, that’s stimulated by hearing.

It took Tom a while to understand the rules of temporal sequence in indirect speech.

temporal power, temporal courts

The Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled

The [papal] train was in use until 1871, when the Pope [Pius IX] lost his temporal power.

Not long before, he had ruefully acknowledged in a letter to his pious mother that most of his appointments to the bench of bishops had been motivated by distinctly temporal impulses.

The things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

for God's people love always to be dealing as well in temporals as spirituals

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He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals.

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