How to Use momentarily in a Sentence

momentarily

adverb
  • The wind let up momentarily, allowing us to start a campfire.
  • We expect them to arrive momentarily.
  • He paused momentarily before finishing his speech.
  • The victim fell to the floor, rose and left the room momentarily.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 12 May 2022
  • Hatton birdied the 18th for a 66 to momentarily tie Fox for the lead.
    — Associated Press, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
  • This short clip momentarily sucked the air out of the gym.
    — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Kizzee got off his bike and ran and the deputies momentarily lost sight of him.
    — Stefanie Dazio, Star Tribune, 2 Sep. 2020
  • That set the stage for the three-run bottom half of the inning that left the game tied at 5-5 momentarily.
    — Mike Waters, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 May 2024
  • Toh fell on the ground and hit her head and blacked out momentarily.
    — Marlene Lenthang, ABC News, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Parties are, at least momentarily, a thing of the past, but there is a time and place for them.
    — Lindzi Scharf, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Just before the flag is lowered for the day, the flag should once again be momentarily hoisted to the peak.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Sep. 2022
  • On the first of those, a sinker in the heart of the strike zone, Merrill was momentarily confused as to why no one challenged the ball call.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2025
  • But even at normal speeds, the oil in the oil pan might be sloshing to one side, and the oil pump gets starved momentarily.
    — Motormouth Bob Weber, Star Tribune, 2 July 2021
  • To return to the field, the training staff taped his hand to momentarily stem the bleeding.
    — Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2022
  • Then the two fought momentarily until the first man rode away on his dirt bike.
    — Ryan Martin, Indianapolis Star, 28 June 2019
  • The keepers will then use a wall to separate the pair momentarily to inspect the cub for the first time.
    — Jessica Contrera, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2020
  • The fight was stopped momentarily to check the bleeding.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 13 Nov. 2022
  • That gave Lin a share of the lead, but only momentarily.
    — Chron, 2 Oct. 2022
  • But like a kind of grace, that weight is lifted, even if only momentarily, in the flight of birds.
    — April Austin, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 June 2020
  • It’s Margaret who leads the charge, and it’s Lane’s movie even when the film momentarily forgets it.
    — Jake Coyle, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Good enough to make the Mavericks the talk of the bubble, at least momentarily.
    — Dallas News, 9 Aug. 2020
  • Bermudez gets up and takes Kenney’s back momentarily but Kenney gets out of that and drops down a punch at the close of the second.
    — Todd Martin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2019
  • In a still shot of the deer, it can be seen jumping over the meat counter, appearing to momentarily get stuck.
    — Alexandra Deabler, Fox News, 18 Feb. 2020
  • But when the wind momentarily cooled, the team found their opening.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 8 Mar. 2019
  • The Broncos momentarily took the lead on a fallaway 3 by Shaver.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2023
  • He was momentarily caught in the protective netting as Yelich raced around the bases for the home run.
    — Lamond Pope, chicagotribune.com, 7 Aug. 2020
  • Although Monday’s win stopped the bleeding momentarily, the Bulls have tumbled from the top spot in the East to fifth.
    — Julia Poe, chicagotribune.com, 23 Mar. 2022
  • That was only momentarily, as Lashley — starting on the back nine — took the lead late in the day with a birdie on the par-5 seventh hole.
    — Greg Levinsky, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2019
  • Stolarz hit the ice momentarily, but stayed in the game for about three more minutes of game action — about nine minutes in real time — before ultimately being replaced by backup Joseph Woll.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 6 May 2025
  • While some birds can flutter in place momentarily, the hummingbird can hover in one place for an extended period, fly forward or backward, and move at an incredible speed.
    — Ernie Cowan, Mercury News, 27 Apr. 2025

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