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Example sentences for "being moved"

  • The velocity which an engine is capable of imparting to the load which it draws depends upon the rate at which the pistons are capable of being moved in the cylinders.

  • Recollect mission] as a grievance, instead of being moved by a just and charitable zeal--interested themselves in that report.

  • He is incapable of being moved by the din of conches and drums, or by songs or the sound of hundreds of musical instruments beat or blown together.

  • He is like a rock which is incapable of being moved in the slightest degree by ever a heavy downpour from the clouds.

  • This argument takes intention in the sense of being moved to an end.

  • According, therefore, as that which is moved to an end by another is said to intend the end, thus nature is said to intend an end, as being moved to its end by God, as the arrow is moved by the archer.

  • But men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Ghost.

  • For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Ghost.

  • For example, stones are incapable of being moved in certain directions except by some other force, but they are capable of being moved by themselves in another direction; the like with fire.

  • Besides, all the bodies which are carried round in a circular revolution (all except the First or Outermost Sphere--the Aplanes) appear to observation as lagging behind and as being moved in more than one current.

  • The second are, the capacities of being moved by such affections--the affective faculties, if one may so call them (ib.

  • Robert Widders, being moved to go and speak to a priest, was left behind, intending to come after.

  • I went out of the meeting, being moved of God to go to the steeple-house.

  • To be moved voluntarily, is to be moved from within, that is, by an interior principle: yet this interior principle may be caused by an exterior principle; and so to be moved from within is not repugnant to being moved by another.

  • The other motive power is that which executes motion in adapting the members for obeying the appetite; and the act of this power does not consist in moving, but in being moved.

  • Therefore it is necessary for the thing moved to be not totally in either of the terms while it is being moved; but partly in the one, and partly in the other.

  • A kind of double bridge, the upper one projecting beyond the lower one, and capable of being moved forward by pulleys; -- used for carrying troops over narrow moats in attacking the outworks of a fort.

  • Being moved, he will not spare to gird the gods.

  • This same Herder Stael lived with us for nearly a year before his death, being moved so to do by a deep desire, and having a holy and firm purpose to serve God.

  • Does either my face, my colour, or my voice give any manifestation of my being moved?

  • How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defence and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?

  • In some the drilling head is carried by an arm standing at a right angle to the main column or frame, and is capable of being moved to any required position upon the length of this arm.

  • Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable.

  • Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being moved" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being also; being applied; being baffled; being born; being buried; being contrary; being convinced; being deprived; being discovered; being from; being full; being introduced; being late; being like; being many; being pressed; being quite; being reconciled; being related; being sent; being separated; being supposed; being taught; being true; being well; positive knowledge