plural temporaries
: one serving for a limited time
adding several temporaries as typists during the summer
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Examples of temporary in a Sentence
Adjective
The drug will give you temporary relief from the pain.
The delay is only temporary.
The settlers built temporary shelters.
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Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 21 May 2024
Actress Riley Keough, who inherited the Memphis property after the death last year of her mother, Lisa Marie Presley, and a settlement with grandmother Priscilla Presley, obtained a temporary restraining order against a sale of Graceland by Naussany Investments & Private Lending LLC.
—Angie Orellana Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2024
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Adjective
Converted to a temporary two-way traffic pattern between Seventh Street and Sixth Street.
—Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 21 May 2024
Actress Riley Keough, who inherited the Memphis property after the death last year of her mother, Lisa Marie Presley, and a settlement with grandmother Priscilla Presley, obtained a temporary restraining order against a sale of Graceland by Naussany Investments & Private Lending LLC.
—Angie Orellana Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2024
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“Temporary.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/temporary. Accessed 28 May. 2024.
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