Sentence examples for transitory with from inspiring English sources

Even success proves transitory, with yesterday's apparent accomplishment becoming unglued today.

But there are indications that such land use is transitory, with gradual simplification and loss of complex agroforests and fallows as land use becomes increasingly individualistic and profit driven.

The more frequent, milder alterations in brain function and chemistry in newly diagnosed DKA have been assumed to be transitory with normalization after metabolic stabilization (5– 8), but this assumption has not been formally tested.

Poekel's hands-on, resolutely local drama infuses holiday rituals and their sweet and transitory trivia with a melancholy grace.

This was mainly due to transitory factors, with Italy's Mario Monti focusing on elections at home, and Spain's Mariano Rajoy preoccupied with a corruption scandal.

The 'free' rate was employed only in limited transactions and evidently represented on the part of Great Britain merely a transitory compromise with circumstances.

Cracking was a transitory process with the density of cracks being highest in a 20 nm thick film, while a 500 nm thick film was crack-free.

"Whatever has been best in Muslim civilisation has had to be brought from Mecca," Sardar says, in another thoughtful passage, "and has had a transitory acquaintance with the Holy City, but has not taken root".

It was a box of mirrors in which you could spy yourself, but you became transitory compared with the lights that dangled down and held you still as a dimmed star.

There had been parties where he'd fallen into intense and transitory intimacy with people to whom he'd only nodded as they passed on campus later, avoiding eye contact.

This is quite a compliment for a body whose officials are inevitably transitory and with crucial matters such as working for a degree and organising their loans to think of at the same time.