How to Use transitory in a Sentence

transitory

adjective

• Males come and go The males, on the other hand, are transitory.
  — Erin Biba, National Geographic, 8 July 2019
• Going hand-in-paw with that is the transitory nature of a dog's love.
  — Scott Craven, azcentral, 11 Nov. 2019
• In Aztec culture, death was transitory, and the souls of the dead could return to visit the living.
  — Paola Briseño-Gonzalez, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
• Inflation was supposed to be transitory, so the CPI is a good one to watch this year.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2022
• The time has come to chart a new path through our new normal so that progress isn’t just transitory but typical.
  — Richard Carranza, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
• Part of the challenge is the transitory nature of campaigns.
  — Tarini Parti, WSJ, 13 June 2019
• That shift decreases the chances that the post-Labor Day boost is transitory.
  — Peter Grant, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2022
• Perhaps the rise in housing prices, like the price spikes of so many other goods, is merely transitory.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 13 July 2021
• This is where the question of how much of the recent increases in consumer prices are transitory comes in.
  — Justin Lahart, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2021
• The bottom line is that there are two parts to the story, one short run and transitory and the other long run and a major factor for the outlook into ...
  — Kevin A. Hassett, National Review, 26 Oct. 2023
• No matter how slight or transitory, the symptoms of a mild stroke are warnings that must not be ignored.
  — George Parry, Philly.com, 1 June 2018
• Life in the league for bottom-of-the-roster players can be a transitory existence.
  — Zak Keefer, Indianapolis Star, 28 Sep. 2017
• But this was not merely one of Trump’s transitory diversions, in a week already full of them.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 31 July 2020
• So far, Webb’s observations of the Cartwheel Galaxy have shown it to be in a very transitory stage.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 2 Aug. 2022
• But: There’s reason to be concerned that the temporary nature of the spike will also prove to be transitory.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 5 June 2021
• Some are important in a transitory way, like the NBA Finals.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 5 June 2017
• The Fed and most on Wall Street were saying that inflation was transitory and that the supply chains would restore themselves.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2022
• The hope, of course, is that this is all transitory and the specter of inflation will fade as recovery persists, as Fed Chair Jerome Powell argues is the case.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2021
• For months, the Fed told us that inflation was transitory, and every passing month shows that story to have been more and more like fiction.
  — WSJ, 1 Mar. 2022
• Moral: Chemistry, health, good vibes, those are all transitory.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Feb. 2018
• Mercil said that the position is transitory and is meant to end once the suspect is under control.
  — Eric Levenson, CNN, 12 Apr. 2021
• But in addition to that not being certain, there’s also the question about whether the jump in prices would be transitory or prolonged.
  — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
• However, if inflation is transitory as the Fed hopes, then value’s time out in front could be short lived.
  — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021
• An example of a transitory shock, Ballard said, was the earthquake and tsunami in northern Japan in 2011.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 17 Nov. 2021
• The homeless count is starting as the Census Bureau's effort to account for people living in transitory housing winds down at the end of the month.
  — Star Tribune, 22 Sep. 2020
• The current bout of inflation seems to have taken the markets and Fed, and everyone else who viewed it as transitory, by surprise.
  — Jonathan Dash, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2022
• But the treasury secretary saying this is transitory, but also saying that this isn’t going away in the next month or so.
  — ABC News, 17 Oct. 2021
• That led to his theory that buildings are transitory but also should please the senses.
  — Mari Yamaguchi, Fortune, 30 Dec. 2022
• Inflation isn’t transitory and continues to be stubborn and sticky.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Apr. 2024
• Between the lines: Officials were scarred by a disinflationary head-fake in the summer of 2021, which caused Fed leaders to judge that inflation was transitory and there was no need to move quickly to tighten policy.
  — Neil Irwin, Axios, 26 July 2024

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024