Synonyms for momentarily
ˌmoʊ mənˈtɛər ə li, ˈmoʊ mənˌtɛr-mo·men·tar·i·ly

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1. momentarily, momentlyadverb

   for an instant or moment

   "we paused momentarily before proceeding"; "a cardinal perched momently on the dogwood branch"

   Synonyms:
   momently

2. momentarily, momentlyadverb

   at any moment

   "she will be with you momently"

   Synonyms:
   momently

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1. momentarilyadjective

   Synonyms:
   momently, every moment

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1. List of paraphrases for "momentarily":

   temporarily

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How to use momentarily in a sentence?

1. Daniel Reyes:

   Based on what I saw outside, I thought I would be doing them more good if I let them return to their homes, the help they are getting now is only momentarily.

2. William Schaffner:

   I think the real risk from hand shaking is coming so close to another person, if you're shaking hands, you're usually really quite close to someone, at least momentarily, and you're likely to be close to that person in conversation for a period of time.

3. Sren Aaby Kierkegaard:

   To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.

4. Larissa Jensen:

   We theorized that people were looking to treat themselves with little luxuries during these difficult times, scents allow us to escape, even momentarily, and experience a different emotion.

5. George Steiner:

   The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.