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Somebody yanks Chan and elbows him and he is momentarily distracted trying to apprehend his assailant.

When asked about how his announcement from last November was affecting the race, Michaud seemed momentarily at a loss.

While attempting to pull a bin of canned food toward him, Bob is momentarily pulled underwater by a walker sneak-attack.

They are told that this event is important, and they may, momentarily, set aside their skepticism.

Scourges, he says, “are killers who act, momentarily, as agents freed from sacred order and its commanding truths.”

He had been momentarily forgetting care; was speaking gaily to his wife as they entered.

A frown momentarily darkened the cloudless brow of Aristide Pujol.

The eye of Sin Sin Wa turned momentarily in her direction, but otherwise he did not stir a muscle.

The observation passed momentarily unnoticed, for Maude, whom Lady Hartledon had been obliged to release, would not be pacified.

Wilder was so touched by this burst of confidence that he momentarily forgot his happy thought.

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On this page you'll find 21 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to momentarily, such as: briefly, immediately, instantly, temporarily, for a little while, and for a minute.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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