TRANSITORY


Meaning of TRANSITORY in English

adjective

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

the transitory nature of young love

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

As she tilted her face upwards to answer, her bone structure was thrown into transitory relief.

It is a transitory work which lays the groundwork for themes and styles found in the theater sixty years later.

Relativism is not an attractive proposition to anyone, least of all philosophers, because everything becomes so uncertain and transitory .

The benefits are transitory , wearing off as the alcohol is filtered out of the body.

This departs from the measure based on lifetime incomes, on account of systematic life-cycle factors and of transitory variation in incomes.

This is probably due to the relatively transitory nature of what they name.

Whether such a remark represents transitory frustration or deep disillusionment is not always easy to tell.

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