Modifies a noun

• nature: The transitory nature of many of the peace motifs in Northern Ireland is evidence of the fragile state of the current peace agreement.

• phenomenon: At the best, when a man says ' I ' he refers only to a transitory phenomenon.

• provision: Schedule 24: Transitional and transitory provisions and savings 26.

• phase: Stage one sleep is a transitory phase, this usually lasts about 20 minutes.

• impact: But the loving behavior that I enjoy observing has more than a transitory impact.

• stage: The outburst may represent a transitory stage in a star's evolution that is rarely seen.

Modifying Another Word

• usually: This retaliation is usually transitory, just to test the strength of your boundaries.

• often: They regard knowledge derived from a business context as often transitory and of limited long-term value to students.

• only: Only transitory delay in continuing therapy was observed ( median 3.9 days ).

• not: Unlike normal sadness it is not transitory; the patient feels paralyzed and loses hope of ever feeling any better.

• so: In comparison our current physical existence will seem so dull, so flat, so fleeting, so transitory.

• very: Online writing is poised in a very transitory moment in its own development.

Preposition: in

• nature: The improvement is likely, therefore, to be transitory in nature.