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"for the nonce" Definitions
  1. for now : for the moment

12 Sentences With "for the nonce"

How to use for the nonce in a sentence? Find typical usage patterns (collocations)/phrases/context for "for the nonce" and check conjugation/comparative form for "for the nonce". Mastering all the usages of "for the nonce" from sentence examples published by news publications.

I was disappointed that Tiger was O.K. (for the nonce).
Would you mind sitting in the waiting room for the nonce?
" If things have names, it's only for the nonce, simply "because they needed to be called something, if only for a moment.
It is an incredible show to see at this particular moment in time, but, of course, you cannot see it, as the Brooklyn Museum is closed for the nonce.
In January 2017, Colilodion schulzi is named "species of the year 2017 of the Swiss Systematics Society", among 153 species described by Swiss researchers during the year 2016. For the nonce, members of the genus Colilodion are designated under the name of "rabbit beetles".
The term is used because such a word is created "for the nonce" (i.e. for the time being, or this once). All nonce words are also neologisms, that is, recent or relatively new words that have not been fully accepted into mainstream or common use.Malmkjaer, Kirsten.
1987) He helped defend Asgard against the forces of Seth.Thor #393 (July 1988) Fandral once set off on a mission to repair mischief done by Loki, and to rescue Mord, a groomsman vital to the security of Asgard. During this, on the Isle of Freya, the Norse Goddess of Love, he learns that his womanizing ways have deeply hurt many women, driving even the latest to near suicide. He is overcome by great shame and declares to Freya, 'for the nonce, I have forsworn philandering'.
Available via ProQuest. Ralph Partridge congratulated the newcomer Bolingbroke Johnson for devising a new murder motive, but found the novel uneven and amateurish.Ralph Partridge, "Detection" (review of The Widening Stain and nine other crime novels), The New Statesman and Nation, 27 March 1943, pp. 211–212. Available via ProQuest. Bishop expressed some regret about the book, inscribing a copy within Cornell's library: > A cabin in northern Wisconsin Is what I would be for the nonce in, To be rid > of the pain Of The Widening Stain And W. Bolingbroke Johnson. Bishop's authorship was discreetly acknowledged in a 1976 reprint of the book.
They find a radiation source that seems to be responsible for the change and which may have also changed the lathsmer embryos that they are carrying. For the nonce, until they can solve the mystery of the dead man and the radiation source, they put the brachs and the lathsmers into Solar Queen's lifeboat and Dane, astrogator Rip Shannon and engineer Ali Kamil land it on Trewsworld away from the starport to wait. The usually bird-like lathsmers are hatching and looking more like dragons. They manage to escape into the wild and Dane and Ali go looking for them.
The 8 November 1890 issue of The Whirlwind was the last to carry Erskine's name on the letterhead. Issues from 20 onwards appeared with his name crossed-out and were produced solely by Vivian. Erskine's absence from the paper was briefly note in that issue: "Our colleague has, for the nonce, been called from us. While duly deploring the discontinuance of his collaboration, we feel so deeply the importance of what is before him that we refrain from further regret and wish him Godspeed upon his delicate mission, in the full confidence that his brilliant success will shed additional lustre upon our own triumphs during his absence".
Suspended for the nonce on the arms of the trolley, Olive unwittingly makes a path for Popeye between her spread and spindly legs. On, on he speeds; falls the trolley and Olive rolls on, out into the busy street, falling on her face in the midst of traffic. Popeye notices mid-roll that Olive is well behind him; the strong seaman forces a turn just as he is about to fly off a short, wooden dock. Olive feebly tries to stand as a car taps her rear end and sends her soaring into the revolving door of "Lacy and Co." department store, which sends a great lady-patron flying out the door and her packages out of her hands and into the air.
They advanced as far as Muirthemne and Dundalk and from that position demanded hostages and sureties from the sons of Hugo and Aed O Neill. But he moved out with his Galls and Gaels, and they posted themselves in parties on the passes of Sliab Fuaid and the doorways of Emain and Fid Conaille and challenged attack in these positions. But the Galls of Ireland, when they saw they were to have protection, determined to make peace and settlement with William [de Lacy] and the Earls and to accept the award of the King of England as to the conditions of peace: so they disbanded and left their positions without having extracted terms or tribute from Aed O Neill for the nonce." "Aed mac Cathail Chrobdeirg marched with a great force to the castle of Ard Abla in Tethba.

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