Sample Sentences for
provisional
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  • Not all provisional ballots will be counted.
  • The committee approved a provisional budget while waiting for final numbers.
    provisional = temporary or not final
  • No interim period for—I don't know—a provisional government-in-training?†  (source)
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  • Second, we have arranged for a provisional government.†  (source)
  • He believed it provisionally here in this room located below street level in a frame house on a weekday afternoon in Cliffside Park, New Jersey.†  (source)
  • Provisional.†  (source)
  • By the way, Jarvis, we arranged the funeral provisionally for tomorrow afternoon, after a service in the Parkwold Church.†  (source)
  • But sometimes other arrangements can be made if we get provisional approval, especially in a situation like yours.†  (source)
  • This note is made provisionally, in order to explain in part why it is now so difficult to give any clear description of her.†  (source)
  • As soon as something like a provisional programme had been hastily cobbled together important announcements would come in, either from the front or of a diplomatic nature.†  (source)
  • Provisionally at least, your guilt is seen as proven.†  (source)
  • By dinnertime Luna had a government to replace co-opted provisional government—i.†  (source)
  • D'Artagnan did reflect, and resolved to thrash Planchet provisionally; which he did with the conscientiousness that d'Artagnan carried into everything.†  (source)
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