Example sentences for: temporary

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

  • Those who leave a social gathering to use the toilet usually say, “Excuse me”; it might, depending on the gathering, be acceptable to say, “I have to powder my nose,” “I gotta go (and when you gotta go, you gotta go),” “I have to pee,” “I have to take a leak/piss/crap/shit, etc.” but who cares enough about a person's temporary disappearance to want to know its details?

  • LSC representation of aliens is limited to certain classes of aliens who broadly may be described as lawful permanent residents, prospective lawful permanent residents and one specific group of temporary, nonimmigrants.

  • More than 11,500 New Yorkers continue to work out of temporary space, according to analysis by Manhattan-based real estate brokerage TenantWise.com Inc. and Crain's New York Business.

  • booly Irish: temporary enclosure where itinerant herdsmen keep their animals

  • More than two years after the 1994 Northridge, Calif., earthquake, for example, HUD found itself still paying generous rent subsidies to more than half of the 13,000 displaced lower-income residents who had been granted "temporary" aid after the disaster.


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