adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the transitory nature of young love
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As she tilted her face upwards to answer, her bone structure was thrown into transitory relief.
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It is a transitory work which lays the groundwork for themes and styles found in the theater sixty years later.
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Relativism is not an attractive proposition to anyone, least of all philosophers, because everything becomes so uncertain and transitory .
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The benefits are transitory , wearing off as the alcohol is filtered out of the body.
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This departs from the measure based on lifetime incomes, on account of systematic life-cycle factors and of transitory variation in incomes.
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This is probably due to the relatively transitory nature of what they name.
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Whether such a remark represents transitory frustration or deep disillusionment is not always easy to tell.