Sample sentences for PROVISIONAL

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temporary; or in effect while awaiting approval or a more permanent solution

She will head the provisional government until elections can be held.

Some states issue a provisional driver's license and require no moving violations under it prior to issuing a full license.
We reached a provisional agreement, but still need to work out details and get final approval.
hired under a provisional contract
Not all provisional ballots will be counted.
—You wish me to say, Stephen answered, that the rights of property are provisional, and that in certain circumstances it is not unlawful to rob.
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Provisionally at least, your guilt is seen as proven.
Franz Kafka -- The Trial
Or was I a foolish, uncorrected, blundering, provisional, unreliable man, this was taken away as of no account and couldn't have any sense or meaning.
Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
So they gave us provisional visas.
Ernest Hemingway -- A Farewell to Arms
I'm going to try to form a provisional company.
Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon
It was from the "Japanese Provisional Military Police."
Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
He still isn't telling, and I am reassured: despite his changed facade, his thinning hair and provisional suit, he is still the same person underneath.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
She's been worried about him not having a church up here and has worked up a provisional plan, which she now springs.
Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen
Jean de Satigny settled his wife provisionally in a hotel and turned his attention to the task of finding them lodgings worthy of his new status.
Isabel Allende -- The House of Spirits
At a provisional estimate, the alterations that the Medical Officer asserts to be desirable will cost somewhere about twenty thousand pounds.
Henrik Ibsen -- An Enemy of the People
By the way, Jarvis, we arranged the funeral provisionally for tomorrow afternoon, after a service in the Parkwold Church.
Alan Paton -- Cry, the Beloved Country
A bill for a "provisional army" was passed, but not before it was cut from 25,000 men to 10,000, which was still more than Adams had asked for or wanted.
David McCullough -- John Adams
The pavement turned to dirt, then roads turned into paths, and the houses grew more and more provisional.
Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
But meanwhile he had to go on living, and, until he formed a theory of conduct, he made himself a provisional rule.
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
"But if Mr. Stelling catches you carrying it in?" said Mr. Poulter, pocketing the crown-piece provisionally while he raised this new doubt.
George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss

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