How to Use temporal in a Sentence

temporal

adjective

• By the year 1800, the French Revolution was over, the ancien régime a thing of the past, the temporal power of the papacy crushed.
  — Claire Messud, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022
• Their key results come from frontal and temporal sources.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2016
• Some of them can evolve and compete for spatial and temporal resources on the computer that hosts them.
  — Shi En Kim, Scientific American, 6 Apr. 2023
• The teams then brief each other in their own temporal pincer movement.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2024
• The first is temporal — a gorgeous savory tomato galette meant to be enjoyed now with her salsa verde.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2023
• But many survived the natural and temporal forces arrayed against them to remain on the trees and branches for a third Sunday.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024
• But if the leap second was devised to solve for temporal anomalies, why are so many rejoicing its demise?
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 29 Nov. 2022
• For some, the day’s religious rituals were a reminder of a painful temporal cleaving: the before-times, and the after.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
• The scoring of these attributes and their temporal dynamics are also available on the KYN site.
  — Cindy Gordon, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
• The physical world is temporal and declines; the non-spatiotemporal one is ideal and doesn’t.
  — Alec Wilkinson, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2021
• The caliph — not wholly unlike the pontiff in Rome for Catholics — was the leading, unifying temporal authority of the Muslim world.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
• The stories of Mack’s life are told not in chronological order but as a temporal mosaic.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2023
• What our descendants will look back on is a temporal narcissism.
  — George Gurley, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2023
• That era is now historic although O'Malley says viewers should not overly trouble themselves with the show's temporal placement.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 13 Sep. 2023
• The Elvis crew describes the color palette as both temporal and psychological, synced to the colors seen around America at that time and to Presley’s mental state.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Jan. 2023
• Laws are temporal, cyclical, and cultural, and, for that very reason, often unfair.
  — Callum McLennan, Variety, 24 Jan. 2024
• That temporal duality, as in the earlier films, informs the enveloping sense of place.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2023
• What's really a much greater temporal demand for parents of young children is what's called supervisory time, or in your care time.
  — Joe Weisenthal, Bloomberg.com, 4 May 2023
• Even that simple drawing seems related to the dichotomies of the two works, with their contrast between women frozen in a timeless moment and men engaged in the slipstream of temporal existence.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
• The biannual temporal event allows for more daylight at night between mid-March to early November.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 9 Mar. 2024
• Much of it is based on what climate is doing today but most forward planning is done with insufficient spatial and temporal detail.
  — Felicia Jackson, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
• First of all, the very high temporal resolution, because this can be very useful for safety, critical systems.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Oct. 2023
• Other nations put all spiritual and temporal power into their kings; Israel wisely had kings to rule, priests to lead worship and prophets to speak God’s words of challenge to the powerful.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Sep. 2022
• She was first inspired by the subject in the 1990s after reading a study — and then follow-up research — that claimed listening to Mozart improves the spatial-temporal reasoning of students for a short period of time.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2021
• But without the moon’s power over our spiritual and temporal lives, modern science may have looked very different.
  — Rebecca Boyle, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2024
• This helps the researchers understand temporal patterns in the emitted photons and to ascertain that the emitted light comes from individual sources.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Jan. 2024
• His psychology is of minimal concern or insight, and his death falls outside this movie’s own temporal zone of interest.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• Scientists have been unable to confirm the existence of time reflection due to the amount of energy required to create a temporal interface.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 15 Mar. 2023
• There are many theories about Phil’s temporal loop (which by one estimate lasted nearly 34 years) and his eventual escape.
  — David G. Allan, CNN, 2 Feb. 2023
• The sceptre with cross represents temporal power and good governance.
  — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 6 May 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024