MOMENT in a Sentence

Learn MOMENT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
420 example sentences for MOMENT, such as:
1. He loses all who loses the moment.
2. A taxi passed by just a moment ago.
3. She turned and looked at him a moment.
4. It's not actually raining at the moment.
5. He laid the book on the book shelf a moment ago.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of MOMENT
moment
 n.  at this time
 n.  a turning force produced by an object acting at a distance (or a measure of that force)
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He stood there a moment, breathing quickly, and looking up and down the street, in which not another figure moved.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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2  In another moment she would step forth into the night, and his eyes, accustomed to the obscurity, would discern her as clearly as though she stood in daylight.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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3  He saw Eady, after a moment, jump from the cutter and go toward the girl with the reins over one arm.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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4  A moment later he heard the jingle of departing sleigh bells and discerned a figure advancing alone toward the empty expanse of snow before the church.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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5  The next moment they sank to her flushed cheeks and she began to mount the stairs ahead of Zeena.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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6  But for the moment his sense of relief was so great as to preclude all other feelings.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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7  At the moment, however, his one desire was to avoid the long drive with her behind the ancient sorrel who never went out of a walk.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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8  The name threw a chill between them, and they stood a moment looking sideways at each other before Mattie said with a shy laugh.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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9  Ethan, a moment earlier, had felt himself on the brink of eloquence; but the mention of Zeena had paralysed him.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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10  The two leaned forward at the same moment and their hands met on the handle of the jug.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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11  Mattie's hand was underneath, and Ethan kept his clasped on it a moment longer than was necessary.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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12  After a moment Mattie seemed to be affected by the same sense of constraint.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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13  She turned and looked at him a moment.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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14  He told Jotham to go out and harness up the greys, and for a moment he and Mattie had the kitchen to themselves.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
15  Ethan, consumed with the longing for a last moment alone with Mattie, hung about impatiently while Denis made an ineffectual search in the obscurer corners of the store.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Once I have the chance to witness his worst moment, but u still can accept his defects and keep this as secret.
2  All of life is an act of letting go,but what hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.
3  It's not actually raining at the moment.
4  We're actually a bit short-handed at the moment.
5  A taxi passed by just a moment ago.
6  He laid the book on the book shelf a moment ago.
7  Now, wait a moment - I don't agree with that.
8  He loses all who loses the moment.
9  For a moment, can remember many things, also missed a lot.
10  He was also an MP — I'll think of his name in a moment when it comes back to me.
11  Such thinking is fashionable among right-wing politicians at the moment.
12  They chose the right psychological moment to announce the plans.
13  The manager bethought himself a moment and gave me an answer.
14  I like to get everything done before the guests arrive and relax for a moment in the calm before the storm.
15  The teacher will be down on any little mistake in the article in a moment.