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Example sentences for "critical moment"

  • It was a critical moment; life depended upon success, death would follow, sure death, the failure of his plan.

  • He had "piped" down to a critical moment, but he carried his life in his hands.

  • It was a critical moment; both men were cool and spoke in deliberate tones.

  • It was a critical moment, for a narrow-minded man in his place, timid of responsibility and fearful of his own popularity at home, would have prevented or postponed for many years the American Union.

  • It was won at a critical moment to the Federal government, and it became to its interest to magnify it in every way practicable.

  • Thus did it fall to the lot of Hill once more to strike the decisive blow at a critical moment.

  • He had come, too, at a critical moment, and his coming had been worth much to the South.

  • He had heard of his heroic charge at a critical moment--of a man rising from his bed of wounds to lead back his wavering regiment; the army was ringing with it.

  • Prescott was startled by his friend's appearance there at such a critical moment, but he remembered that the night was dark and he was heavily muffled.

  • The honour of the day belongs to Alexander Farnese, who with a dashing cavalry charge broke the enemy at a critical moment, the only men who made any real resistance being the Scottish levies, 600 strong, under Colonel Balfour.

  • General Law, who commanded an Alabama Brigade, had been arrested and courtmartialed for failing to support General Jenkins at a critical moment, when Burnside was about to be entrapped, just before reaching Knoxville.

  • The Second and Eighth South Carolina coming up at a double quick, joined Hampton's Legion, with Early, Cox, and the troops from the Valley just in time to be of eminent service at a critical moment.

  • It was a critical moment, and the necessity imperative for prompt, decisive action.

  • The divorce of the colonies from the mother country took place at a critical moment, when their union was hurtful to them both.

  • This is a critical moment: upon the triumph or the defeat of revolution in South America depend the destinies of two worlds.

  • Furthermore, when the bits are washed, the leather gets wet, and the stitching is apt to become rotten, and unexpectedly give way at a critical moment, when some unusual strain is put on it.

  • Against this reversal of policy at a critical moment Mr. Churchill made the strongest protest, and said that he must disclaim all responsibility if disaster occurred in Turkey owing to the insufficiency of troops.

  • It was this courage as well as consistency of policy that bound Gambetta to him, and made Bismarck wish that he should be sent to Berlin at a critical moment in 1885 'to have a talk.

  • The two allies were fighting a hard fight at a critical moment.

  • Napoleon was unassisted by the wandering force and even confused by their unexpected appearance at a critical moment.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "critical moment" 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:
    address delivered; ancient sculpture; and the; bona fide; copper wire; critical analysis; critical edition; critical examination; critical moment; critical position; critical study; done what; dramatick poetry; escaped convict; heavy force; hollow tree; letter written; little deprecatory; living standards; moderate means; more abundantly; mountain house; obtain redress; perennial plant; spiritual nature; wished himself