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Example sentences for "for the time being"

  • The moment John Bellingham dies, his dead body has come into existence; and it is 'deposited' for the time being, wherever he happens to have died.

  • The cavalry pushed on to near Woodstock, and there, for the time being, the pursuit terminated.

  • For the time being he told me only that he was known as Anders, was of noble descent, and had held property on the Rhine, but that he had lost everything owing to the villainous betrayal of his gullibility and good-nature.

  • For the time being, however, this work of versification had the desired result, and Reissiger kept steadily to the study of Rienzi.

  • He then explains to his young enemy that he wishes to leave the signboard up for the time being, as he still hopes to prove the truth of the motto.

  • No father and mother can hope to escape sorrow and anxiety, and there are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by.

  • He asked her to excuse the brevity of his communication, as he was still suffering from the effects of his stormy voyage across the lake, which had shattered, for the time being, his nervous system.

  • He, for the time being, kept bar for Joe Porter, and was one of his most bibulous, though not one of his most profitable, customers.

  • So with great sorrow of heart, for they had become sincerely attached to him, they had, for the time being, to desist from their benevolent attempts and leave him to his fate.

  • Here a permanent resting-place, for the time being, was made.

  • For the time being we had sounded a sort of funeral peal over the Nibelungen by playing so much of it, and it was now completely laid aside.

  • Whenever I saw any likelihood of being again brought into closer contact with the theatre I was filled with an indescribable disgust which, for the time being, I was unable to overcome.

  • For the time being he contented himself with commissions to design decorations for interiors and luxurious furniture, for which he was well paid.

  • After this the most important point was to get a first-class orchestra for my concerts, and my two agents had, for the time being, more than enough to do in this respect.

  • For the time being he seemed to be glad to secure for himself some sort of literary occupation, and accepted with much pleasure my proposal that he should make a translation of Tannhauser for practical use.

  • That part of the house which Philip has paid, or will pay, for my living in, is my own, for the time being.

  • For the time being he was wholly occupied with his own horse; but when Glory was minded to go straight ahead instead of in a circle, he gave thought to his mission and thanked the Lord that Dock was headed in the right direction.

  • Just because yuh happen to be down and out--for the time being--is no reason why yuh should insult folks.

  • For the time being, however, I have cogent reasons for keeping our marriage secret, and you have promised not to divulge it.

  • But although the dark clouds of the political thunderstorm had been removed for the time being, they were constantly threatening, like a gloomy spectre on the horizon, casting sinister shadows on every day and on every hour.

  • This he found impossible, for the time being at any rate.

  • So the annuity scheme lay dormant in his brain, as it were, for the time being.

  • For the time being, it is only built on sand.

  • For the time being, I have to deal with Mikolka; there are facts which implicate him--what are facts, after all?

  • Confess or not, as you think best; for the time being, that is nothing to me.

  • But, for the time being, there was a lull in the fighting.

  • So fierce was the attack, and in such numbers, that there was nothing for our friends to do but retreat, for the time being at least.

  • But the enemy far outnumbered our friends, and the latter, for the time being, were in the position of persons besieged.

  • They are, for the time being, separate from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

  • For the time being, Dole was strongly opposed to throwing either the Neutral Lands or the Osage Reserve open to white settlers.

  • About a month previous to the disaster of August 10, Agent Elder had been obliged to make Fort Scott, for the time being, the Neosho Agency headquarters, everything being desperately insecure at Crawford's Seminary.

  • Lane persisted notwithstanding Robinson's objections and, for the time being, found his policies actually endorsed by Prince at Fort Leavenworth.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "for the time being" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    for ever; for myself; for now; for such; for the same reason; for they are foolishness unto him; for three; for whom; force their; forced upon; foreign bodies; foreign markets; foreign matter; foreign money; foreign prince; foreign travel; forest products; former existence; former occasions; formerly called; formerly supposed; formerly written; forming part; forty pounds; might haue; sitting down