Temporary
"Temporary" in a Sentence (11 examples)
I made a temporary repair to the broken door.
You'll need a temporary bridge.
It's a temporary condition.
Recession is a temporary falling off of business activity during a period when such activity is generally increasing.
If you are having temporary financial problems and it is the cause of your outstanding account, let us know about it.
I'll give you a temporary treatment.
These buildings need temporary repairs.
Does she come from the agency that sent the last temporary I had?
This arrangement is only temporary.
As the recession set in, temporary employees were laid off one after another.
Sally was put in temporary charge of the department while they searched for a full-time replacement.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.