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.
A ringing twang interrupted the scene as a large piece of shrapnel ricocheted off a 500 - pounder in the bomb bay, causing me to momentarily slam the door shut.
She momentarily succumbs to the tendency to simplify irreducible complexities.
A half-score of white-coated foot flared like fatwood in a winter fire, and the line slowed, but only momentarily, before the Shining Foot surged forward once more, the second line of troops marching over the charred corpses of those who had led the charge. The Chaos Balance
The colour of the walls in the master bedroom momentarily stopped the fearless skateboarder in his tracks, however. Times, Sunday Times
That's the best weapon we have against these evil people, our flat refusal to allow them to divert us more than momentarily from our daily lives.
But mine was momentarily dumbstruck when, after his talk, I passed through a doorway inside the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino and entered an air-conditioned simulation of the Grand Canal.
Changing gears, the machine reversed and then turned left, breaking out onto one of the main streets momentarily.
– The point-of-view switches awkwardly from the grandfather (” he feels momentarily vindicated”) to Ruthie (” Ruthie doesn’t understand why …”). Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » CarsonArtist’s Review Forum
The best trick is to momentarily divert their attention - " Hey!
As when a breeze ruffles the surface of a reflecting pool, ripples ran rapidly across her vision, momentarily distorting the figures.
Colter's buildings are memorialized here for just this sort of delicate balancing act: They complement one of the most beautiful spots on earth, even as they momentarily distract from it.
Her feet made slight shifts as they momentarily lost footing, but she did not stop, did not falter in her forward momentum, heading toward the East River.
Her joy was so infectious that he momentarily forgot his own fears for the future.
But when the orbits become very eccentrical, we must consider this force as momentarily affecting a comet's velocity, diminishing it as it approaches the perihelion, and increasing it when leaving the perihelion. Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence
A properly trimmed airplane will do its best to maintain a constant speed should the pilot become momentarily distracted.
Recognising the tenderness inherent in the small caresses, Luke looked momentarily distracted.
Any cuckoo nestling that lost its hold, even momentarily, over its host would have died as a result.
But the glaive only caused the upper and lower halves to momentarily part. WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE
And I may have momentarily gone onto two wheels at a couple of roundabouts.
Stagiaires with small cups of herbs elbow others with pipettes of oil out of the way in order to get to the plate, while still others, momentarily bereft of anything to do, crowd around trying to watch. The Sorcerer’s Apprentices
The recorder came in with an adagio-like slowness and gravity, momentarily wobbled off-key, then recovered.
Through such experiences and spectacles, the modern, detached, moderate rationality of the narrator, and often the hero, is linked to a restored sensorial excitement, as the novel connects the reader vicariously to a passional self momentarily free from habitual restraint (although in practice, still carefully insulated from any action that would seriously offend conventional proprieties). Walter Scott, Politeness, and Patriotism
Even today, as she lay helpless in my lap, waiting for him and TFR to return from his daycare so he could say goodbye, just the sound of his name perked her up momentarily. Memento Moron: Remember, Thou Art Stupid
The girl's eyelids flinched, as though she was dreaming, and she tensed up momentarily before relaxing and falling into a true sleep.
When I'd slip and lose my footing, he'd momentarily lose sight of me, and a worried expression would cross his face.
Whitlock paid the driver then entered the diner, pausing momentarily in the doorway to get his bearings. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
Hold the nearly straightened position momentarily before bending your knees to release. Shape Your Body, Shape Your Life
I was momentarily distracted by the latest item of spam in my inbox.
I saw him step forward momentarily but then hang back, nervously massaging his hands.
He seems none the worse for wear, despite momentarily leaning on his scythe for support.
It practically mean that the organization was "beheaded" but only momentarily. Counterterrorism Blog
Until the armoured regiment had crossed its start line, the armoured infantry would pause momentarily in forward holding areas.
He diverted himself momentarily with the calculation of the total impedance of a certain circuit. THE INNOCENT
I was momentarily free and I surged upward to the air.
He paused momentarily to check that his listeners had fully appreciated the humour of his remark.
The bird is a notorious skulker, tending to show itself only momentarily, and is as difficult to see well as a nightingale.
The male narrators offer the woman's body as the place where they are momentarily free from the pressures of dissembling a myth of themselves.
He momentarily confounded his critics by his cool handling of the hostage crisis.
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
She was momentarily startled by the sight before her.
She hit her high point early on with a powerful reading of "Siboney" that used minor and pentatonic modes to reference Middle-Eastern music and even traveled momentarily through a reggae beat. Masters and Young Bloods
His invention-a 3D printer momentarily located in Pisa, Italy - is said to look like a “prototype for the automotive industry” and combines the functionality of computer architecture programs with the printer mechanism. Fusion Office Suite From Enrico Pellizzoni
I saw him step forward momentarily but then hang back, nervously massaging his hands.
The open sea blows huge out there, white circles curling on the crest of waves like eyes that notice momentarily our piece of shore-a rocking catboat, mangroves, an egret hunkered on a post.
Aislinn nodded gravely, her eyes momentarily taking on a distant light.
The kick uses a turning action which momentarily exposes a large target area to the opponent.
The problem (as I see it) is a stackup of features: pushbutton start/stop, and it doesn't stop when I momentarily push it. Slashdot
Pause momentarily, then push yourself up. The Sun
He frowned, and the handsome face clouded momentarily, petulant as a child's.
He was momentarily unable to speak with excitement.
The machine beeped in recognition of the code and the numbers flashed momentarily across the screen.
His expression momentarily froze, so she breezed past the moment by asking, “You must remember a lot about the missions of these ships.” Star Trek The Next Generation®
When it happened, solving a clue was so thrilling that our girlish giggles were momentarily replaced with a worrying desire to crush our opponents. Times, Sunday Times
Finally, all turned, slowly glided and pitched down, poising with uplifted wings momentarily before merging into the dusk.
Melodic rubato occurs where ‘tempo rubato frees a melody from strict note values, either by agogic accents or by accelerando and rallentando… so that the melody is momentarily out of step with the accompaniment ’.
Her mood lifted momentarily at the thought of the couple, but it didn't last.
I hate having to come up with words to explain that I know and remember the person but that the name is momentarily escaping me.
He saw a slip of moon, peeking, just momentarily --- undelineated, a fuzz of potentiality --- through the moist and whited cloud around him. BEHINDLINGS
I was so stunned and momentarily befuddled it never even occurred to me to fire the second barrel.
Then, intense fear of abandonment and loneliness overcame him momentarily, but he was resolved to face his terror by remaining alone.
Then one, two, three bronze figures dash down a steep ravine below the Convent walls, and plunge into the river – a shrill chorus of voices, growing momentarily more audible, is borne upon the wind – and in a few minutes the boat is beset by a shoal of mendicant monks vociferating with all their might Ana Christian ya Hawadji! A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
The other activities going on behind the desk stopped momentarily and the staff glanced at one another in quiet suspicion.
A small crease appeared between his eyebrows while he continued to watch her, his retreat momentarily forgotten.
This serious turn will probably momentarily stun us into selfhood, into the illusion that he and we are separate. THE BOOK OF THE DIE
We momentarily move onto more frivolous things. Times, Sunday Times
As I finally reach the top of the climb I'm momentarily relieved.
His crisp white Greek Revival house still stands at a curve in the main road, momentarily blocking the bay view as you drive past.
A caller reported kids throwing leaves at passing cars on McGee Drive, saying she was ‘momentarily blinded’ by obstructed view from the leaves.
Momentarily the sandstone quarry looked even craggier, but the voice continued smoothly. THE QUEST FOR K
The pilot momentarily pulled back on the stick and then executed a slat bunt.
Why is it when someone in a horror film is impaled on something sharp, like a fence post, they always feel the need to look up momentarily, catching one final glance at the object that has killed them?
The gale is breaking," he told me, waving his mittened hand at a starry segment of sky momentarily exposed by the thinning clouds. CHAPTER XXXVIII
Funniest of all, though, is the opening squeal of computer noise nonsense that momentarily almost passes for a new Radiohead composition in itself.
Donna winced in pain, and spinning round, kicked out at Mark's stomach, momentarily winding him.
Luckily, the gangway gate, which he had pushed out had floated alongside of him on the tideway, and he had retained consciousness enough to grasp one side of it with a drowning man's grip, but was in danger of momentarily losing it. The Boy Scouts on the Yukon
Then, in the distance a foghorn wails and the roaming light of a lighthouse momentarily pierces the shadows.
Hall opened his eyes, and instantly flashbulbs popped, blinding him momentarily.
It started on Friday mid-morning and stopped momentarily for an hour or two after midnight.
Neat little undergarments, white little frocks, a something that the miner felt by instinct was a "nightie," and two pairs of the smallest of stockings rewarded the overhauling of the package, and left Jim momentarily speechless. Bruvver Jim's Baby
The whispered conversation had halted momentarily upon his abrupt arrival, but began again.
He is momentarily thrown by the comparison, but quickly warms to the topic.
Poached pears in curried cream. It was pleasantly disorienting, like being momentarily lost in a foreign city and regaining one's bearings at the sight of a familiar landmark.
The foreboding is momentarily relieved as the next scene opens with a high-angle shot of a sunny, tree-lined street.
The offense momentarily has an unguarded player that gets an open shot.
She felt a bit envious momentarily before she brushed it off, feeling selfish.
But gloves have become the stylist's short cut to making an otherwise boring outfit look momentarily quite interesting on the catwalk. Times, Sunday Times
I slowed the car down momentarily and sped up quickly after passing another light.
In single file, their ostrich plumes nodding, their leopard skin tunics contrasting curiously with the marble and arabesqued metal of the ancient palace, they moved across the wide room and halted momentarily at the golden door to the left of the throne-dais. The Conquering Sword of Conan
Or running into the car in front because you momentarily looked down to change the radio channel? The Sun
Momentarily a monk in his bright saffron robes appeared at the top of the slope, framed all around by the flames before he began his walk down to the cave.
Arriving for a hastily convened press conference, he was momentarily stunned by how few journalists were there, before the seats quickly filled up. Times, Sunday Times
Let's just hope we've only momentarily lost sight of what really is.
As she bounced out of her limo on to the pavement she stopped momentarily to flash that familiar all-American toothy smile.
Asked if he had ever considered doing costume work outside wrestling, Ojeda was momentarily at a loss.
She pauses and looks momentarily very sad. The Sun
Whilst I momentarily contemplated exchanging my Xda Serra for a Nokia 5800 I still have a few days to return the phone, the truth is that I am the sort of user who will take advantage of the Xda Serra's qwerty keyboard and the included Microsoft Office. Archive 2009-02-01
But from what I’ve heard the leading cause of death with professional horsemen is momentarily forgetting just how dangerous the beasts can be, walking behind a usually sedate Horse, and getting a lethal kick. EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - This kid sort of deserved this: Cow 1, Kid 0
Although momentarily tempted by the seductively rich chocolate dessert Sabrina's willpower held firm and she gave it to Graham.
The smiley icon appeared momentarily, one of the eyes closing quickly as it winked.
I was getting ready to go call a cab, and paused momentarily to gaze at Gavin.
He was momentarily unable to speak with excitement.
Momentarily, I will get up, take a few steps down the hallway, and peek out onto our front stoop.
Notice also that when you made either sound, the flow of the column of air coming from the lungs is momentarily interrupted and then released. Cultural Anthropology
He blinked as pain wracked his body and paralyzed him momentarily.
She stops and looks momentarily aghast. The Sun
When the voltage across the cap exceeds the reference voltage, the comparator momentarily triggers the transistor which shorts out the cap, discharging it back to the starting voltage.
Listening to this record momentarily makes one feel that all is well in alternative music.
It was at that point - my attention momentarily diverted from my crotch - that I noticed that I had suddenly sprouted a giant zit on the very frontmost tip of my nose. Zipless
My sounds seemed momentarily to disconcert the boar, and while he halted and shifted his weight with indecision, an apparition burst upon us. CHAPTER III
The noiselessness was broken momentarily by a set of footsteps, rustling the snow-crusted leaves.
Her eyes were a deep chocolate brown, and she paused momentarily to pull a stray strand of hair out of them.
He zoomed in on the main attraction, and was momentarily surprised to see that she was effectively zooming in on him, her gesticulative, including-everybody delivery suspended for a second as she stared with consternation at the giant blond geek with the camera. Not the End of the World
He pauses, momentarily reflecting on his attacker. Times, Sunday Times
The usual smell of books and bindings met my nose, which crinkled momentarily.
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's broad new debt reduction proposal has, at least momentarily, managed to placate a community of progressive acti... Obama Debt Reduction Plan Calms Democrats' Concerns On And Off Hill
Protesters from Yale and Harvard momentarily stole the spotlight from President Barack Obama at a rally in Bridgeport, Conn. Protesters From Yale, Harvard Interrupt Obama Rally
Under the early afternoon sun, she closed her eyes momentarily in a vain attempt to contain her anguish.
But, while she stares straight ahead - aloof, resigned - he diverts his gaze momentarily from the road to engage us with a look of such vulpine knowingness that we begin to wonder just what exactly he has in mind.
Every shell that bursts Blows it momentarily out, and he has to light it.
It was at that point – my attention momentarily diverted from my crotch – that I noticed that I had suddenly sprouted a giant zit on the very frontmost tip of my nose. Zipless | Her Bad Mother
After liftoff, at nearly 100 percent of rated thrust, the engine throttles back momentarily.
Sometimes, this point of view is equated with, or momentarily coincides with the Eye of the Camera.
Dousing her face and neck, she gazed for a fleeting moment into the water, her thoughts momentarily blank.
Luckily, I'm able to momentarily escape and take a breather.
When it happened, solving a clue was so thrilling that our girlish giggles were momentarily replaced with a worrying desire to crush our opponents. Times, Sunday Times
Juska is momentarily self-conscious as she realises that neighbouring diners have put down their forks in contemplation of her possible murder.
Kat raised her head momentarily and blew a pesky strand of hair out of her eyes, fluttering her lips so that a raspberry gently sounded.
Nevertheless, I was momentarily taken aback by this packaging revelation.
In order to make sense of these elisions, we need to turn our attention momentarily to a more focused consideration of such instances of language use, one account of which is offered by sociolinguistics.
She looks momentarily nonplussed, then laughs. Times, Sunday Times
Anna looked up, momentarily distracted by the noise her friends were making.
She pulled her staff from its bindings on her back, and was stunned momentarily as the other wielded a similar weapon.
A single thin shaft of sunshine from a hole in the cave roof momentarily hit the pool. Times, Sunday Times
I discovered at the midnight end of a 48-hour marathon writing session that I was completely exhausted, totally exhilarated, and momentarily exorcized of all my pain. Toward the Within
The narrator of a cautionary tale is momentarily excused from the ordinary demands of etiquette that discourages the use of gruesome or disgusting imagery because the tale serves to reinforce some other social taboo. Hilaire Belloc's Cautionary Tales for Children
Notwithstanding the lively interest Hawkeye had taken in the fate of his messenger, he received "killdeer" with a satisfaction that, momentarily, drove all other recollections from his mind. The Last of the Mohicans
That being said, if bias can be divorced momentarily from the partisanship engineered by K Street: what do you think on the fact that for the first time in history the House leadership is coming from a city on the Pacific? Sound Politics: What It Means
It unnerved me momentarily, but when I became aware of her attention returning to her work I cast my gaze back towards her.
I felt momentarily obliged to offer him a cookie, if not a hug and a comp ticket for the clue train.
The first university disruptions at Berkeley were explicitly directed against the multiversity smorgasbord and, I must confess, momentarily and partially engaged my sympathies. THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND
A network of ripples quivered momentarily across the surface of the still pool.
When he came into the barn from the brilliant sunlight outside, he was momentarily blinded.
Our conversation lulled momentarily, and I finally thought to ask him the one question that should've been the most obvious to me.
On entering Henry Street, the car's engine revs, it spurts forward and the driver appears to lose control momentarily.
His words hit me like blow to the stomach, and I was momentarily speechless.
It was flying very low and momentarily disappeared into a valley.
On the whole, I am inclined to think that the artist is fully rewarded, for the common man can have no conception of the Joy that is to be found in belonging, though but momentarily and illusively, to the aristocracy of genius. The Ghost Ship
For the person in the rear, there is a vacuum effect that lets you momentarily go faster than your gearing allows, making it possible to slingshot past the person in front.
Though we may momentarily feel warmth, discomfort or shame, our emotions are rarely more than pinpricks.
As they arrived in Latham, the familiar, edgy electronic Seinfeld music was momentarily replaced by a hillbilly twang.
Her joy was so infectious that he momentarily forgot his own fears for the future.
And just momentarily, they'll be making their way to Arlington National Cemetery, which is right across the Memorial Bridge over the Potomac. CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2009
It felt like heaven in his mouth and he closed his eyes momentarily, lost in the bliss of mozzarella cheese and the spicy bite of Italian sausage.
When at the song's close an infected white blood cell was momentarily screened, it was almost painfully poignant. Times, Sunday Times
I froze momentarily, startled by the sight.
A person feels a spark of holiness, has an inspiring experience, yearns momentarily for something more, but then does something unholy, or simply comes home and turns on the TV.
As you start your forward movement with the lower body, feel the stretch in your upper body increase momentarily before the arms swing down.
So they haven't been dozing off for long snoozes, but you have actually seen people fall momentarily asleep?
Evelyn was momentarily disconcerted by his response, until she saw his eyes focussing on her neck.
For a second or so, there is a complete communion between us, as our respective states of contentment become momentarily enmeshed.
Quicky I grabbed the bag and held it tight hoping to momentarily fill my void.
Momentarily satisfied with the response to his first intimate foray, Ridge drew back to study her through half-closed eyes. Western Man
When he came into the barn from the brilliant sunlight outside, he was momentarily blinded.
Momentarily at least, the deposit is willingly accepted by the seller.
It is worthwhile pausing momentarily to consider these linguistic ready-mades, these formulaic sentiments.
Her heavy lids hid her eyes so well that they were seen only momentarily, like the fleeting glimpse of water in a deep well.
His crisp white Greek Revival house still stands at a curve in the main road, momentarily blocking the bay view as you drive past.
Arlene spared some of her attention momentarily, to level a glance at her daughter.
They headed down through his back yard, pausing momentarily for Matt to show off yet again, by doing a back flip off the trampoline.
She gasped, momentarily confused by the apparition that appeared before her.
It also commits two completely unforgivable sins, both of which I will get to momentarily.
A single thin shaft of sunshine from a hole in the cave roof momentarily hit the pool. Times, Sunday Times
Notice also that when you made either sound, the flow of the column of air coming from the lungs is momentarily interrupted and then released. Cultural Anthropology
As the last embers in the pipe slowly died out, the trapper looked momentarily beyond his bower and saw the drifting snow covering the entrance.
She looks momentarily panicked but stands her ground. Times, Sunday Times
As if she needed telling now, with the flare of union, the astonished fire of synapses momentarily blinding her, a storm of thought and memory, the two streams of thought rushing together like two rivers in spate, eddies whirling and pouring into one another, a great rush of starfire and darkness, knowledge and uncertainty— Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages
If the area just below the kneecap ( "patella") is tapped lightly, that tendon is struck and the thigh muscle is momentarily stretched. The Human Brain
I saw him step forward momentarily but then hang back, nervously massaging his hands.
About there or a little north all the channels started coming back in strong but would disappear momentarily is I went under an underpass. XM RADIO IN CENTRAL MEXICO
A cloud of dust rises and momentarily obscures the wreck.
As the candlelight waxed and waned in the breeze, the highlights of the frescoes in the domes and semi-domes flashed momentarily into view then disappeared again into the shadows.
I wondered how many of them had been granted, and momentarily debated whether or not tossing in a coin would help my situation.
She paused momentarily as if she was going to add her opinion, but in the end, decided not to rise up against the authority of the principal.
Reform forces might capture the conventions and momentarily subdue the bosses.
He had a powerful sense of the emptiness of his remembered landscape, animated only momentarily by human action; life becomes explicable as a diagrammatic series of gestures and relationships, "the underlying magic", as Miró described it, and he developed a way of painting that seemed to respond to those energies. Joan Miró: A life in paintings
Set aside for the moment the friendly relationship with Respect that preceded the courtroom farce of Labour's candidate selection process, put temporarily from your mind some of his business connections, banish momentarily concerns that he's too matey by half with the Tower Hamlets religious right, and subject him to the basic whelk stall test. Tower Hamlets: ineptitude and nastiness marr Lutfur Rahman campaign
While tying on my bonnet, which had hitherto hung by its ribbons from my idle hand, I vaguely and momentarily wondered to hear the step of but one “ouvrier.” Villette
When an old village dame afterwards assured me that "she didn't know I was that larned," I felt -- momentarily -- rather like a wolf in SHEEPSHANKS 'clothes. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 22, 1893
A ringing twang interrupted the scene as a large piece of shrapnel ricocheted off a 500-pounder in the bomb bay, causing me to momentarily slam the door shut.
Without warning a cloud of white steam poured forth from the rock wall in front of her, and she lost her footing momentarily.

How To Use Momentarily In A Sentence

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