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Temporary in sentence

1089 examples of Temporary in a sentence

Instead of waiting through years of planning studies and computer models to get something done, we've done it with paint and temporary materials.
They thought this was a temporary change.
Sadly, a temporary weight gain can become permanent.
My brother and I were living in New York City when the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude did their temporary installation, The Gates, in Central Park.
And also, when things go wrong, we try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory.
The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary as all the people you've ever been.
But fortunately, such effects are usually temporary.
Now, we like to think that technology creates jobs over a period of time after a short, temporary period of dislocation, and that is true for the frame of reference with which we all live, the Industrial Revolution, because that's precisely what happened.
You might imagine that being a refugee is just a temporary state.
We should think of refugee camps and communities as more than just temporary population centers where people languish waiting for the war to end.
The goddess Hera, who hated Hercules for being born of her husband’s adultery, had stricken him with a temporary curse of madness.
So the truth is that listening to something that you enjoy perks you up a bit and gives you a temporary IQ boost on a narrow range of tasks.
Most are mild and temporary.
The Global Horizons survivors had been brought to the States on a temporary guest worker program.
By 11 o'clock they had called numbers 21 through 25; this was going to be a while, and there is no amount of free face painting or temporary tattoos that could prevent the meltdowns that were occurring outside of the store.
And there's this amazing thing that happens in war, a cultural shift almost, very temporary.
Ironically, by borrowing out their voices, I'm able to maintain a temporary form of currency, kind of like taking out a loan with a very high interest rate.
A refugee's stay is supposed to be temporary.
Perhaps love is a temporary or permanent addiction to a person, just like a person can be addicted to a drug.
Comparing what they're experiencing to normal, temporary feelings of sadness can make them feel guilty for struggling.
Refugee camps are intended to be temporary structures, offering short-term shelter until inhabitants can safely return home, be integrated to the host country, or resettle in another country.
Now, I can tell you, having been technologically obsolete myself at one point, that it's a temporary condition.
Wilson has termed the age of gene circumvention, during which we remedy our genetic defects like cystic fibrosis or muscular dystrophy with temporary external supplements.
They are not adapted to temporary danger.
But these are temporary columns, waiting in purgatory, to be placed in the very counties where these lynchings occurred.
That crow enjoys a temporary monopoly on peanuts, until his friends figure out how to do it, and then there we go.
Every night they set up a small, temporary village to deliberate their own vision of the French Republic.
And oxygen deprivation in the retinal cells impairs their ability to process light, causing greyed out vision or temporary blindness.
Satellites that are no longer working are often left to deorbit over many, many years, or only moved out of the way as a temporary solution.
What if there actually were international laws with teeth that enforced end-of-life disposal of satellites instead of moving them out of the way as a temporary solution?
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