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FOR THE MOMENT
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Temporarily
Example:
we'll stop for the time being
Synonyms:
for the moment; for the time being
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Context examples:
I had begun life with benevolent intentions and thirsted for the moment when I should put them in practice and make myself useful to my fellow beings.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
But his mind was for the moment clear, and he lay and considered.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
The circumstance was told him at Hartfield; for the moment, he was silent; but Emma heard him almost immediately afterwards say to himself, over a newspaper he held in his hand, Hum! just the trifling, silly fellow I took him for.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The deception could not continue after this; and an explanation immediately took place, by which both gained considerable amusement for the moment, without any material loss of happiness to either, for Mrs. Jennings only exchanged one form of delight for another, and still without forfeiting her expectation of the first.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I could see nothing for the moment but these two furious, encrimsoned faces swaying together under the smoky lamp, and I shut my eyes to let them grow once more familiar with the darkness.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
How long it had been searching me through and through, and over and over, I cannot tell: so keen was it, and yet so cold, I felt for the moment superstitious—as if I were sitting in the room with something uncanny.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He continued his plodding pursuit, though once, for the moment baffled, he came to a full stop and blinked at the men who looked on, at the same time wagging his stump of a tail as an expression of his willingness to fight.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
I am aware, more aware than Crawford can be, that the man who means to make you love him (you having due notice of his intentions) must have very uphill work, for there are all your early attachments and habits in battle array; and before he can get your heart for his own use he has to unfasten it from all the holds upon things animate and inanimate, which so many years' growth have confirmed, and which are considerably tightened for the moment by the very idea of separation.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
We then went upstairs together, and having entered the room and seen the dressing-gown hanging up behind the door, I contrived, by upsetting a table, to engage their attention for the moment, and slipped back to examine the pockets.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The man’s appearance amply bore out his words; his manner was altered for the worse; and except for the moment when he had first announced his terror, he had not once looked the lawyer in the face.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
