[
US
/ˌmoʊmənˈtɛɹəɫi/
]
[ UK /mˌəʊməntˈɛɹəli/ ]
[ UK /mˌəʊməntˈɛɹəli/ ]
ADVERB
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at any moment
she will be with you momently -
for an instant or moment
a cardinal perched momently on the dogwood branch
we paused momentarily before proceeding
How To Use momentarily In A Sentence
- Her rally faltered momentarily when she bunkered her second to lose the 12th to go two down again, but promptly birdied the long fifth with two big hits on to the green and the 14th after an approach shot to within seven feet of the flag.
- Clara looked momentarily disconcerted but wasn't about to concede defeat after upbraiding Nicholas a moment before.
- I did appreciate the 50-year-old unicyclist who drew an unamused Howie Mandel into his act and rendered him momentarily speechless. Matt's TV Week in Review
- The abyss of ethnographic otherness has been momentarily bridged.
- I carried her with me and placed her on the ladder and she scrambled up, her little, ragged dress catching momentarily on the nails of the rafters.
- A tall, strong, handsome woman, she looks momentarily lost and vulnerable.
- Jane was momentarily shocked the first time she heard the voice, which seemed to come from a person much larger and wilder than Georgie: a banshee, perhaps, or a bushwoman. The Wayward Muse
- The road fore and aft was momentarily clear and he had nothing else to interest him. A DEAD LIBERTY
- Delays over her bathtub had occurred partly because the board prohibited whirlpool tubs, and partly because she had paused momentarily in revising her plans. Times, Sunday Times
- Another pair of wings momentarily blinded her, and every bird that had occupied the tree suddenly left in a rush, loud chirrups marking their way.
