How to Use temporal in a Sentence

temporal

adjective

• His head sustained a small temporal fracture and a small brain bleed.
  — Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 23 May 2026
• This is the temporal space of the Kalendar.
  — Literary Hub, 17 Dec. 2025
• This was my first sign that these novels exist in a temporal paradox.
  — Olivia Wolfgang-Smith february 4, Literary Hub, 4 Feb. 2025
• Throw it on before bed for a creeping loss of temporal traction and wild dreams.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 8 July 2026
• The teams then brief each other in their own temporal pincer movement.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2024
• What our descendants will look back on is a temporal narcissism.
  — George Gurley, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2023
• Some of them can evolve and compete for spatial and temporal resources on the computer that hosts them.
  — Shi En Kim, Scientific American, 6 Apr. 2023
• But if the leap second was devised to solve for temporal anomalies, why are so many rejoicing its demise?
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 29 Nov. 2022
• The first is temporal — a gorgeous savory tomato galette meant to be enjoyed now with her salsa verde.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2023
• An open lower temporal bar – a gap in the cheek region of the skull – makes reptile jaws more flexible.
  — New Atlas, 15 Sep. 2025
• My body felt euphoric and light—transported and suspended in a temporal plane.
  — Literary Hub, 17 June 2026
• Here, drawing becomes temporal and communal — something heard as much as seen.
  — Olga Garcia-Mayoral, Miami Herald, 19 May 2026
• There’s also a couple of areas that fall along the side of the middle temporal gyrus, this big hunk of meat that goes along the whole temporal lobe.
  — Quanta Magazine, 5 Dec. 2025
• The strategic effect of this shift is not only material but temporal.
  — Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
• In this example the information is temporal, slight, and of little broad use.
  — New Atlas, 23 Jan. 2026
• No temporal limitation is placed on the length of the service on the court by a Supreme Court justice.
  — James M. McGuire, New York Daily News, 11 Jan. 2026
• Establish predictable rhythms that create temporal anchors for your team.
  — Michael Hudson, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
• What looked like ideological bias was, more often, temporal lag.
  — Charles Edward Gehrke, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2026
• Laws are temporal, cyclical, and cultural, and, for that very reason, often unfair.
  — Callum McLennan, Variety, 24 Jan. 2024
• The physical world is temporal and declines; the non-spatiotemporal one is ideal and doesn’t.
  — Alec Wilkinson, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2021
• But many survived the natural and temporal forces arrayed against them to remain on the trees and branches for a third Sunday.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024
• The stories of Mack’s life are told not in chronological order but as a temporal mosaic.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2023
• The temporal brow lift (which is commonly coupled with a facelift) meant Robin also had about 30 staples in her scalp.
  — Michele Promaulayko, Allure, 17 June 2026
• The upper limit to our temporal experience is less precise.
  — Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
• The crucial difference between the two films is not just temporal, however, but also formal.
  — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2026
• What's really a much greater temporal demand for parents of young children is what's called supervisory time, or in your care time.
  — Joe Weisenthal, Bloomberg.com, 4 May 2023
• Best of all, this sort of orientation helps to realize that elusive timeless-temporal balance in your work itself.
  — Literary Hub, 10 Dec. 2025
• Then there’s the sweetness underneath all the temporal shenanigans and graphically bloody shootouts.
  — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 15 Mar. 2026
• Much of it is based on what climate is doing today but most forward planning is done with insufficient spatial and temporal detail.
  — Felicia Jackson, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
• The sceptre with cross represents temporal power and good governance.
  — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 6 May 2023