How to Use temporarily in a Sentence

temporarily

adverb

• On April 8, the moon will pass between Earth and the sun, temporarily blocking the sun’s light.
  — Jesse Kirsch, NBC News, 28 Mar. 2024
• The planet's rings will temporarily drop out of the night sky view from Earth during parts of the spring and, again, in the fall of 2025.
  — Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 30 Sep. 2024
• The earnings call seems to have soothed Wall Street, at least temporarily.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 24 Apr. 2024
• The team had trouble drawing fans, and its finances were such a mess that the league temporarily took over the club a decade ago.
  — Ken Belson, New York Times, 2 June 2024
• Bills get passed and then temporarily blocked by judges.
  — Eric Boodman, STAT, 14 Mar. 2023
• At the time, the dental office was temporarily closed because of covid.
  — Cathy Free, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2024
• Rubbing the soap on the hinges may also temporarily fix squeaky doors.
  — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 July 2024
• And there was a mad dash for supplies at a Home Depot in Clairemont, which temporarily ran out of bags and sand.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
• Trump talk: With a gag order temporarily lifted in his civil fraud case, Trump again attacked the judge in the case and the judge’s law clerk.
  — Bridget Bowman, NBC News, 27 Nov. 2023
• Perez did not grant it, causing the bar to temporarily close on July 12.
  — Jordyn Noennig, Journal Sentinel, 16 Sep. 2024
• The judge has ordered the documents in the case temporarily sealed but has set a court date for next week on the matter, TMZ reports.
  — Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Feb. 2024
• Last month, the Texas Supreme Court temporarily blocked the program a day before the first $500 payments were supposed to go out.
  — Jennifer Ludden, NPR, 3 May 2024
• Betts flew out to end the inning, but by temporarily losing the zone, Webb had thrown 51 pitches through two frames.
  — Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 15 May 2024
• The course had four simulators that are temporarily up in the winter months but are now down.
  — Cathy Kozlowicz, Journal Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2024
• For hair, that comes through the concept of filling gaps in the strand, temporarily mending split ends, and improving texture in the process.
  — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 27 Nov. 2023
• Chase, 38, of Carmichael, had been living temporarily with Smith’s friend.
  — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 23 Feb. 2024
• Those were some of the highlights of the Sundance premiere, though who’s to say whether there were even greater moments that AI temporarily left on the cutting room floor.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2024
• The Thorns led 1-0 after scoring against the run of play, lifting the pressure off their shoulders at least temporarily.
  — oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2023
• At the time, Palmer was also temporarily granted sole custody of Leodis.
  — Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 30 Dec. 2023
• The bar was temporarily closed on Monday after her death.
  — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 16 July 2024
• Then, the resorts had to temporarily shut down, the festival had to cancel its in-person events two years in a row, and worst of all, Jen Shah moved to town (and later, out of it).
  — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2023
• Ludington rejected a request that the forgiveness be temporarily blocked and said the groups did not show that they would be harmed by the plan.
  — USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2023
• Large, top-of-the-food-chain predators like wolves can have huge impacts on ecosystems, but only temporarily.
  — Siddhant Pusdekar, Journal Sentinel, 5 July 2024
• Bruno Miranda tied the score in the 69th minute, a goal that temporarily dropped Panama behind the United States into third place.
  — Compiled From Wire Reports, Orlando Sentinel, 2 July 2024
• Holmes and Robach are temporarily pulled off the show while their long-term status with ABC remains up in the air amid their affair's national buzz.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Jan. 2023
• Elsewhere on the island, a house was blown into a street, temporarily blocking it.
  — Julio Cortez, Kate Payne, TIME, 11 Oct. 2024
• Maybe this is a blip; maybe years of bingeing and that period in 2020 when all anyone wanted to watch was Tiger King, just skewed things temporarily.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 16 Jan. 2024
• The Des Moines airport's main entrance will close temporarily tonight.
  — Jason Clayworth, Axios, 3 Sep. 2024
• There was a brief period in late 2019 where the two entities reached an impasse about the future of the character in the MCU, and their agreement was temporarily called off.
  — Katcy Stephan, Variety, 25 Oct. 2024
• McDonald’s has temporarily removed its Quarter Pounders from about one-fifth of its restaurants.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 25 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024