How to Use temporarily in a Sentence

temporarily

adverb

• On April 8, the moon will pass between Earth and the sun, temporarily blocking the sun’s light.
  — Jesse Kirsch, NBC News, 28 Mar. 2024
• At the time, the dental office was temporarily closed because of covid.
  — Cathy Free, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2024
• And there was a mad dash for supplies at a Home Depot in Clairemont, which temporarily ran out of bags and sand.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
• Trump talk: With a gag order temporarily lifted in his civil fraud case, Trump again attacked the judge in the case and the judge’s law clerk.
  — Bridget Bowman, NBC News, 27 Nov. 2023
• The judge has ordered the documents in the case temporarily sealed but has set a court date for next week on the matter, TMZ reports.
  — Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Feb. 2024
• The course had four simulators that are temporarily up in the winter months but are now down.
  — Cathy Kozlowicz, Journal Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2024
• For hair, that comes through the concept of filling gaps in the strand, temporarily mending split ends, and improving texture in the process.
  — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 27 Nov. 2023
• Chase, 38, of Carmichael, had been living temporarily with Smith’s friend.
  — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 23 Feb. 2024
• Those were some of the highlights of the Sundance premiere, though who’s to say whether there were even greater moments that AI temporarily left on the cutting room floor.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2024
• The Thorns led 1-0 after scoring against the run of play, lifting the pressure off their shoulders at least temporarily.
  — oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2023
• At the time, Palmer was also temporarily granted sole custody of Leodis.
  — Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 30 Dec. 2023
• Ludington rejected a request that the forgiveness be temporarily blocked and said the groups did not show that they would be harmed by the plan.
  — USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2023
• Maybe this is a blip; maybe years of bingeing and that period in 2020 when all anyone wanted to watch was Tiger King, just skewed things temporarily.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 16 Jan. 2024
• That’s right, the marque’s extended-range EV is so waterproof that it can temporarily be used as a boat.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 26 Sep. 2023
• The suit, filed Friday, claims the victim had been temporarily assigned to work at the Louisiana store before she was found dead.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 31 May 2023
• The appeals court temporarily paused enforcement of the injunction while Apple appeals the ruling to the Supreme Court.
  — Brian Fung, CNN, 9 Aug. 2023
• The easiest way to determine if this is the cause is to temporarily disconnect the light from the dimmer and connect it to another switch.
  — Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 26 July 2023
• He was temporarily banned from the government building in 2020.
  — Andrew Selsky, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023
• In 1999, a tumor on a vocal cord caused Silton to temporarily lose her voice but not her ability to whistle.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
• McCoy, 20, temporarily stepped away from the role in mid-December in the aftermath of her mother's death from cancer.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 29 Jan. 2024
• Last summer, a deadly shooting in the area prompted some bar owners to close their doors two hours early temporarily.
  — Kristine Phillips, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Mar. 2024
• And every summer since 2020, Oregon has temporarily allowed self-serve gas due to heat waves and wildfires.
  — oregonlive, 4 Aug. 2023
• Of those six million, at least 1.6 million have been allowed to stay in the country temporarily and face charges in immigration court.
  — Eileen Sullivan, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023
• Twitch temporarily banned him multiple times over the use of homophobic slurs on his streams.
  — Olivia Balsamo, NBC News, 6 Oct. 2023
• The veteran, whom The Post could not locate, received a beating that year that left his face temporarily disfigured, Watts said.
  — Steve Thompson, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
• Last October, a state district judge temporarily blocked the agency from releasing that year’s A-F scores.
  — Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Feb. 2024
• The campus was temporarily placed on lockdown as a precaution.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
• In February, an outage temporarily knocked out cellphone service for tens of thousands of customers in the U.S.
  — Luke Barr, ABC News, 30 Mar. 2024
• When the pandemic temporarily closed Meals by Genet in early 2020, Agonafer took months to weigh her options.
  — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
• Then, halfway through, the studio sprung a number of leaks, causing production to halt temporarily (buckets and tubes got things going again).
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 16 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024