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Example sentences for "moment after"

  • A moment after a band of about a hundred bulls, before hidden by a slight swell of the plain, came at once into view.

  • In a moment after we heard him screaming frantically behind the ridge, and nothing doubting that he was in the clutches of Indians or grizzly bears, some of the party caught up their rifles and ran to the rescue.

  • All this was well enough, but a moment after a worse visitation came upon us.

  • A moment after he landed with an impact that broke his hold on the rope and sent him in a heap on his back.

  • A moment after he came to a halt with a sharp exclamation.

  • There it comes," said the foreman a moment after, and listening Alex heard a sound as of distant thunder.

  • A moment after he had a fleeting glimpse of the intruder running low along the side of the train toward the rear.

  • A moment after, they struck a slight up grade.

  • A moment after he heard the sounds again.

  • Sorry," he added a moment after, observing that Admiral Heyworth was almost aggressively bald.

  • A moment after a line of white appeared beside the green paint of the door, as it was slowly and cautiously opened.

  • He turned suddenly and almost ran into a shifty-eyed little man in a grey tweed suit, who had entered the Admiralty a moment after him.

  • However, I am very sure that they do not extend very far west from the Cape.

  • At three o'clock in the afternoon, the calm was succeeded by a breeze at S.

  • These pillars were generally covered with branches of black feathers, and long streamers of feathers hung from them.

  • The reader, it is believed, will think the account in the text abundantly minute, without any addition.

  • I placed my dollar upon one of the spots, red or black, I know not which, and saw it, in a moment after, spooned up with twenty others by the banker.

  • The sound was a very slight one--it may have been my fancy only;--and she turned away a moment after.

  • A wavering resolution was precipitated by recollection of some disgraceful pages, but a moment after I was thinking that the omission of the book would create a hiatus.

  • All rose, and a moment after, through the twilight of the drawing-room, colour and nudity were scattered in picturesque confusion.

  • A moment after, looking more large and stately than ever, Mrs. Scully sailed into the room.

  • No," he said, a moment after, "Red Wolf and Addick are no traitors.

  • But," he added a moment after, "what is to be done?

  • A moment after, as I was about to awaken Imogene, the awful scream was repeated, seemingly directly across the river.

  • At the same instant I heard Nat's rifle beside me, and a moment after that of the trapper.

  • A moment after, three shakes of the rope informed them that he had accomplished his descent successfully.

  • A moment after, the unfortunate dog was tossed into the air, and fell back lifeless.

  • A moment after, Robert and the sailor descended the three stories of branches and found themselves among their companions.

  • When, at last, the day arrived, Harding mounted his box and gathered up his reins, Doctor Dick following to a seat by his side a moment after.

  • But I forget the best of the matter,' he continued a moment after, in a lively tone.

  • A moment after a window above us opened, and a female form stepped out upon the balcony.

  • A moment after, the trapdoor was pulled back, and the wrinkled face of the sister porter appeared in the opening.

  • A moment after he resolutely raised his head.

  • A moment after we heard the clink of the officers' swords as they ascended the prison stairway in unusual numbers, while we waited the event with deep solicitude.

  • A moment after he noticed a short blank in one of the rails.

  • A moment after, two of those miserable beings entered the hall, and one of those scenes of rude and dissolute merriment ensued which makes the heart ache for human nature.

  • He contrived to bring him to his window, and a moment after, the door was cautiously opened.

  • A moment after, the youth caught the first glimpse of her blue eyes.

  • If you left an open book on the table, you would, on returning to the room a moment after, find it put aside.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moment after" 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 pressed; eggs well; gracious master; high angle; intravenous injection; know full; large series; living child; moment after; moment afterward; moment afterwards; moment ago; moment and; moment and then said; moment before; moment like; moment looking; moment more; moment since; muscular power; prevent from; ringing voice; slew them; trees planted; what principle; wounded soldier