How to Use temporary in a Sentence
- The drug will give you temporary relief from the pain.
- The delay is only temporary.
- The settlers built temporary shelters.
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But that’s just a temporary fix.
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David Goldman,
CNN Money,
3 June 2026
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One, bailouts are a temporary patch.
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Patricia Lopez,
Mercury News,
14 Oct. 2025
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The pair have since been placed in temporary foster care.
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Louis Casiano,
FOXNews.com,
26 May 2026
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Many of these changes are temporary and improve with time.
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Alex Vance,
Parents,
29 Jan. 2026
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The effect may be temporary, though, so don't toss all your shoes just yet.
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Erin Meanley,
Parents,
5 Mar. 2026
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Whether that means at one time or over time in temporary housing has not been made clear.
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Los Angeles Times,
22 Jan. 2026
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The time for temporary fixes is over.
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Wcco Staff,
CBS News,
21 Apr. 2026
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My preferred use is to treat it as a sort of temporary self-tanner.
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Jordan Julian,
InStyle,
23 June 2026
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The temporary suspension of sales will take a week if not more to iron out.
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Julian Chokkattu,
WIRED,
24 Aug. 2023
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These legal issues crop up all the time, and the stock takes a temporary pause.
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Josh Brown,sean Russo,
CNBC,
2 July 2026
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Rice fields make for some of the best temporary wetland habitat.
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Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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Sure, my knee might swell for a day or so afterwards, but swelling was temporary.
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Dimity McDowell,
Time,
24 Feb. 2026
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The statement failed to note that the court's halt on the fund is only temporary.
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Aysha Bagchi,
USA Today,
2 June 2026
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Long-term exposure could lead to burns or temporary hair loss.
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Bestreviews,
Mercury News,
18 Mar. 2026
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Both joy and sorrow are temporary, as is life itself.
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Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
3 Oct. 2025
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How quaint, because those spots can be used for temporary parking.
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Glae Thien,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Jan. 2026
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But the effect may be temporary.
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Natasha Bracken,
semafor.com,
19 Mar. 2026
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The closed streets will also be temporary no-parking zones.
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Laura Fay,
CBS News,
26 May 2026
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The changes will only be temporary.
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Nicole Villalpando,
Austin American Statesman,
14 Jan. 2026
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There is nothing temporary about this.
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Jon Coupal,
Oc Register,
31 Aug. 2025
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The breaks are structural, not temporary.
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Jonathan Jordan,
Fortune,
27 May 2026
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Use kaolin clay, temporary shade, and avoid heavy pruning to shield trees from sunburn and heat stress.
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Martha Stewart,
2 July 2026
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Saturn’s rings are temporary, but only in deep time.
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Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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Whereas, thin floating boards can start to feel temporary.
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Ashlyn Needham,
The Spruce,
12 Mar. 2026
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That’s not a temporary lag that will resolve itself in a few quarters.
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Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
28 Apr. 2026
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The easements will be temporary, Yim said.
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Evy Lewis,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Apr. 2026
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The high school was placed on a temporary lockdown as a precaution, deputies said.
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Dean Fioresi,
CBS News,
8 Apr. 2026
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Why the move to such a high percent of a firm’s staff being temporaries of one form or another?
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Phil Blair,
sandiegouniontribune.com,
2017-09-11
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Tens of thousands of Haitians in the United States when a massive earthquake struck in 2010 were invited to apply for temporary protected status.
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Sandra Pedicini,
OrlandoSentinel.com,
2017-04-25
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This allowed undocumented immigrants brought to America as children who enrolled in or graduated from school, university or the armed forces and had no criminal record temporary, renewable legal working papers.
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The Economist,
2018-06-28
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