transitory

In a sentence

Six example sentences with transitory, each labelled with its topic.

• The spike in lumber prices proved transitory, and by autumn the mills were quoting what they had charged in spring.

  Economics

• Fog on the lake is transitory, so he set the tripod before dawn and had eleven minutes of usable light.

  Photography

• Most study moods are transitory, which is why a single bad afternoon predicts almost nothing about the following week.

  Psychology

• Buddhist thought treats every pleasure as transitory, and the teaching asks the student to notice it passing rather than grasp it.

  Philosophy

• The dizziness proved transitory, fading within a day of the new dose, and the doctor kept the prescription unchanged.

  Medicine

• The bank called the rise in prices transitory and held rates steady, a judgment it revisited nine months later.

  Finance

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More Academic words

• depress
• secrete
• focussing
• confound
• underlie
• enormity
• aberrant
• links
• stipulate
• constraining
• maximising
• deriving