How to Use transitory in a Sentence

transitory

adjective

• This is not a brand that’s transitory.
  — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2025
• Going hand-in-paw with that is the transitory nature of a dog's love.
  — Scott Craven, azcentral, 11 Nov. 2019
• Males come and go The males, on the other hand, are transitory.
  — Erin Biba, National Geographic, 8 July 2019
• It's filled with a lot of sort of transitory places, but filled with depths of human emotion.
  — Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Nov. 2024
• From their perspective, a star is just a transitory stage, a chrysalis.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2025
• Others point to the fact that while the drugs are promising, their impact may be transitory.
  — Seth Joseph, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
• 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
• 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
• This holds that the current bout of inflation will prove transitory.
  — Sebastian Mallaby, Foreign Affairs, 30 June 2021
• Perhaps the rise in housing prices, like the price spikes of so many other goods, is merely transitory.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 13 July 2021
• The list of potential side effects is long, though most are minor and transitory.
  — Emma Whitford, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
• Will the Fed act quickly or take the view that inflation is transitory?
  — Garth Friesen, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
• For this reason, signifiers like the world's largest or oldest are transitory at best.
  — David Szondy, New Atlas, 16 Dec. 2024
• 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 forces that sparked these changes were fundamental, not transitory.
  — Steven Radelet, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2015
• Mad Men ran during a transitory era of TV.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 6 Dec. 2025
• Then, as now, central bankers preached the transitory inflation gospel.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 13 Nov. 2021
• That led to his theory that buildings are transitory but also should please the senses.
  — Mari Yamaguchi, Fortune, 30 Dec. 2022
• 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
• Life in the league for bottom-of-the-roster players can be a transitory existence.
  — Zak Keefer, Indianapolis Star, 28 Sep. 2017
• Also, the Helm-show is transitory.
  — Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
• 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 some Fed officials have portrayed the slump as transitory.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 3 May 2017
• Producers think the elevated costs are here to stay — and are not transitory.
  — NBC News, 24 Nov. 2021
• That shift decreases the chances that the post-Labor Day boost is transitory.
  — Peter Grant, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2022
• All empires are transitory, right?
  — Nikki McCann Ramirez, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2025
• At least some traders now seem to be treating tariff talk as a transitory headline risk rather than the start of a lasting policy shift.
  — Tracy Alloway, Bloomberg, 27 Jan. 2026
• The work is shot through with poignant visual metaphors for mortality and the transitory power of images.
  — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• Some of this is clearly transitory and will reverse once the economy is fully reopened.
  — Greg Ip, WSJ, 12 May 2021
• Recall of course that at the end of this speedy sets of cuts, most of the leading central banks had declared inflation to be ‘transitory’.
  — Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024