How to Use transitory in a Sentence

transitory

adjective
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  • Males come and go The males, on the other hand, are transitory.
    — Erin Biba, National Geographic, 8 July 2019
  • Going hand-in-paw with that is the transitory nature of a dog's love.
    — Scott Craven, azcentral, 11 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • Inflation was supposed to be transitory, so the CPI is a good one to watch this year.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • Part of the challenge is the transitory nature of campaigns.
    — Tarini Parti, WSJ, 13 June 2019
  • That shift decreases the chances that the post-Labor Day boost is transitory.
    — Peter Grant, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Perhaps the rise in housing prices, like the price spikes of so many other goods, is merely transitory.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 13 July 2021
  • 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 bottom line is that there are two parts to the story, one short run and transitory and the other long run and a major factor for the outlook into ...
    — Kevin A. Hassett, National Review, 26 Oct. 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
  • Life in the league for bottom-of-the-roster players can be a transitory existence.
    — Zak Keefer, Indianapolis Star, 28 Sep. 2017
  • But this was not merely one of Trump’s transitory diversions, in a week already full of them.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 31 July 2020
  • So far, Webb’s observations of the Cartwheel Galaxy have shown it to be in a very transitory stage.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 2 Aug. 2022
  • But: There’s reason to be concerned that the temporary nature of the spike will also prove to be transitory.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 5 June 2021
  • Some are important in a transitory way, like the NBA Finals.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 5 June 2017
  • The Fed and most on Wall Street were saying that inflation was transitory and that the supply chains would restore themselves.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2022
  • The hope, of course, is that this is all transitory and the specter of inflation will fade as recovery persists, as Fed Chair Jerome Powell argues is the case.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2021
  • For months, the Fed told us that inflation was transitory, and every passing month shows that story to have been more and more like fiction.
    — WSJ, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Moral: Chemistry, health, good vibes, those are all transitory.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Feb. 2018
  • 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 in addition to that not being certain, there’s also the question about whether the jump in prices would be transitory or prolonged.
    — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
  • However, if inflation is transitory as the Fed hopes, then value’s time out in front could be short lived.
    — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021
  • An example of a transitory shock, Ballard said, was the earthquake and tsunami in northern Japan in 2011.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 17 Nov. 2021
  • The homeless count is starting as the Census Bureau's effort to account for people living in transitory housing winds down at the end of the month.
    — Star Tribune, 22 Sep. 2020
  • The current bout of inflation seems to have taken the markets and Fed, and everyone else who viewed it as transitory, by surprise.
    — Jonathan Dash, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2022
  • But the treasury secretary saying this is transitory, but also saying that this isn’t going away in the next month or so.
    — ABC News, 17 Oct. 2021
  • That led to his theory that buildings are transitory but also should please the senses.
    — Mari Yamaguchi, Fortune, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Between the lines: Officials were scarred by a disinflationary head-fake in the summer of 2021, which caused Fed leaders to judge that inflation was transitory and there was no need to move quickly to tighten policy.
    — Neil Irwin, Axios, 26 July 2024
  • Fed Chair Jay Powell famously told investors in 2021 that inflation was merely transitory, a prediction that proved dead wrong.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 29 July 2024

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