Example sentences for: momentary

How can you use “momentary” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The momentary sell-off, though, was not driven by any rational consideration of what Greenspan's departure might mean.

  • You will attract momentary attention from the other diners, but it will be worth it.

  • Finally, when he learns that Judy has been murdered, he can barely breathe, his anguish seems nearly unendurable, but it's only a momentary spasm, he regains his soulless equanimity, and as he quietly intones his last lines--"The greatest pleasure in life [is] the sweet, ever-changing caress of an early evening breeze"--we realize we've witnessed the exquisitely ironic fusion of elegy and despair, the inseparable linking of a brilliant text and a superb performance.

  • A few cute hats, most of them faintly satirical, costumey, and historical, were worn by a few cute people for momentary effect.

  • Among the duties of this column is to put weather events that cause momentary media alarm into historical perspective.


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