How to Use momentarily in a Sentence

momentarily

adverb

• The wind let up momentarily, allowing us to start a campfire.
• We expect them to arrive momentarily.
• He paused momentarily before finishing his speech.
• The victim fell to the floor, rose and left the room momentarily.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 12 May 2022
• Hatton birdied the 18th for a 66 to momentarily tie Fox for the lead.
  — Associated Press, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
• This short clip momentarily sucked the air out of the gym.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 10 Apr. 2025
• Kizzee got off his bike and ran and the deputies momentarily lost sight of him.
  — Stefanie Dazio, Star Tribune, 2 Sep. 2020
• That set the stage for the three-run bottom half of the inning that left the game tied at 5-5 momentarily.
  — Mike Waters, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 May 2024
• Toh fell on the ground and hit her head and blacked out momentarily.
  — Marlene Lenthang, ABC News, 12 Mar. 2021
• Parties are, at least momentarily, a thing of the past, but there is a time and place for them.
  — Lindzi Scharf, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2021
• Just before the flag is lowered for the day, the flag should once again be momentarily hoisted to the peak.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Sep. 2022
• The kids who step into the room stop and stare, momentarily puzzled, at the wash on their feet.
  — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2018
• On the first of those, a sinker in the heart of the strike zone, Merrill was momentarily confused as to why no one challenged the ball call.
  — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2025
• But even at normal speeds, the oil in the oil pan might be sloshing to one side, and the oil pump gets starved momentarily.
  — Motormouth Bob Weber, Star Tribune, 2 July 2021
• To this day, the hole in the landscape is momentarily a confusing loss, an ache in the gut like hunger.
  — Liz Arnold, Longreads, 11 July 2018
• To return to the field, the training staff taped his hand to momentarily stem the bleeding.
  — Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2022
• Then the two fought momentarily until the first man rode away on his dirt bike.
  — Ryan Martin, Indianapolis Star, 28 June 2019
• The keepers will then use a wall to separate the pair momentarily to inspect the cub for the first time.
  — Jessica Contrera, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2020
• The fight was stopped momentarily to check the bleeding.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 13 Nov. 2022
• That gave Lin a share of the lead, but only momentarily.
  — Chron, 2 Oct. 2022
• But like a kind of grace, that weight is lifted, even if only momentarily, in the flight of birds.
  — April Austin, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 June 2020
• It’s Margaret who leads the charge, and it’s Lane’s movie even when the film momentarily forgets it.
  — Jake Coyle, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2020
• Good enough to make the Mavericks the talk of the bubble, at least momentarily.
  — Dallas News, 9 Aug. 2020
• Bermudez gets up and takes Kenney’s back momentarily but Kenney gets out of that and drops down a punch at the close of the second.
  — Todd Martin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2019
• In a still shot of the deer, it can be seen jumping over the meat counter, appearing to momentarily get stuck.
  — Alexandra Deabler, Fox News, 18 Feb. 2020
• But when the wind momentarily cooled, the team found their opening.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 8 Mar. 2019
• The Broncos momentarily took the lead on a fallaway 3 by Shaver.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2023
• He was momentarily caught in the protective netting as Yelich raced around the bases for the home run.
  — Lamond Pope, chicagotribune.com, 7 Aug. 2020
• Diddy, who had popped out of the room momentarily, came back carrying a brown bag and a money counter.
  — Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 3 June 2025
• Her grandmother stood in stunned silence on the church steps, momentarily overcome with emotion.
  — Tereza Shkurtaj, People.com, 31 May 2025