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Example sentences for "given moment"

  • Its drops, like migrating birds which fly off in a body at a given moment, would come down out of the sky in close marching order.

  • But he was a man able to keep his alarms in close bonds, and to scatter them to the four winds at a given moment.

  • Not infrequently loans are needed only because one's own money cannot be raised at a given moment.

  • He should be proposed to at a given moment--it was only a question of time--and then he should have to do a thing that would be extremely disagreeable.

  • Meanwhile too, however, and unmistakably, the real treatment of their subject did, at a given moment, sound.

  • It consorted so with Mr. Verver's consciousness of the way in which, at a given moment, he had stared at HIS Pacific, that a couple of perusals of the immortal lines had sufficed to stamp them in his memory.

  • The outcome of all this labour is a tabulated view of human life at a given moment; it gives us the knowledge of a state of society (in German, Zustand).

  • The law states a tendency of wages, just as the law of gravitation states a tendency and does not predict positively whether a given object will fall at a given moment.

  • If at a given moment, when it barely pays to work a mine, gold becomes worth less, that mine will go out of use.

  • Through miscalculation there may be, at a given moment, too many consumption goods of a particular kind, but the durable applications can find no limit until the inconceivable day when the material world is no longer capable of improvement.

  • It is said, first, that prices do not vary exactly with the per capita circulation of different countries at a given moment.

  • At a given moment, the money in circulation is a concrete quantity, but the average for the year is abstract, and cannot claim to be a direct causal factor, with one uniform tendency.

  • But, at a given moment, they are what they are, and what they were at a different time adds no ounce of weight to the power they now exert.

  • In fact this unity served once in a certain place and at a given moment to fix the initial value of things.

  • Now, as we shall see, this common denominator does not of necessity remain invariably tied to the thing, money, or more generally to any sort of material support which has served to define it at a given moment.

  • It is impossible to say; but it is certain that, at a given moment, without any visible sign to reveal the prodigious inner transformation, the horse acts and replies as though he suddenly understood the speech of man.

  • At a given moment, a sudden disturbance may radically change them.

  • Infinitely complex is the situation, many and varied are the values, which reinforce each other, oppose each other, and come into equilibrium with each other, in a given moment in the social will.

  • The sage is the man who knows how, at a given moment, to effect his own arrest.

  • At a given moment, every barricade inevitably becomes the raft of la Meduse.

  • Well then her will, at a given moment, broke down, and the collapse was determined by that fellow's dastardly stroke.

  • Mairaut on the one side, and Madame Dupont on the other, develop amiable impulses, and protest, at a given moment, against the infamies committed and countenanced by their respective spouses.

  • At a given moment, D'Orsay learned that a young man known as Lord Raoul Ardale was in reality his son.

  • It is useless to prove, historically, that at a given moment he was passive, supine, unconscious, while people around him were eagerly plotting his escape and restoration.

  • For Fascism, society has historical and immanent ends of preservation, expansion, improvement, quite distinct from those of the individuals which at a given moment compose it; so distinct in fact that they may even be in opposition.

  • For Liberalism, society has no purposes other than those of the members living at a given moment.

  • Thus, not one of the cattle smitten with the typhus goes through all the phases of the disease, without suffering at a given moment in its nervous, respiratory, and digestive functions.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "given 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:
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