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Example sentences for "moment and"

  • As the airlock opened and Damis and Turgan appeared there was silence for a moment and then a thunderous shout of joy rose to the heavens.

  • Glavour stared after him for a moment and an evil gleam came into his eyes.

  • Glavour stared with unbelieving eyes for a moment and then a hoarse cry of alarm burst from his lips.

  • As he laid his hand upon the latch of the wicket he paused for a moment and turned.

  • As he drew near, the nobleman stopped for a moment and stared at him, and Myles, as in a dream, kneeled, and presented the letter.

  • He stopped for a moment and said, "Mayhaps I will not be in until late to-night.

  • Mayhap," said the Earl, "thou didst think that it was all for the pleasant sport of the matter that I have taken upon me this toil and endeavor to have thee knighted with honor that thou mightst fight the Dauphiny knight.

  • Myles met the blow as Sir James had met the blow that he had given, and then struck in return as Sir James had struck--full and true.

  • He looked hollow for a moment and a feeling of loneliness seemed to hover over him until Lloyd, with a compassionate voice, grabbed the boy's craving for some adult rapport.

  • He ceased for a moment and saw a spark of fear flame over the ArchBishop's face as he twitched in his chair.

  • Manguino stood there for a moment and looked at her lying on the bed, her eyes closed and her large legs lying slightly apart.

  • We were past in a moment and in a breeze then blowing we had the heels of anything likely to give us chase.

  • I don’t know about Mills, but the subdued shadowy vibration of it echoed in my breast which felt empty for a moment and like a large space that makes one giddy.

  • I fought against it for a moment and then my resistance gave way.

  • She paused a moment and whispered: "O Tom, man, a new song is singing in my soul!

  • The young editor was silent a moment and spoke in low tones: "You can keep a secret?

  • He was still for a moment and a mist veiled the light at which she gazed.

  • The Boy's brow was wrinkled for a moment and then he suddenly looked up to his father's rugged face: "And what became of Dan'l Boone?

  • He was silent a moment and a smile played about the corners of his lips: "Would you change because I asked it?

  • Here he paused for a moment and listened.

  • He stared at Arnold for a moment and seemed to realize for the first time that he was a stranger.

  • Arnold looked after him for a moment and then up the street below.

  • He drove on stolidly for a moment and then a smile came on his thin lips.

  • Tanya stood silent a moment and then a wan smile rewarded him.

  • Herr Hochwald stared at her a moment and then, as though to himself.

  • He watched Zeb rake for a moment and then he turned back to me.

  • I lay down for a moment and--well, I suppose I was rather tired.

  • Johnson left the room for the moment and I switched to the subject which neither of us had mentioned since the night before, the Louisville and Transcontinental muddle.

  • A moment and he slid slowly from the billiard table and crossed to the corner of the room where a typewriter had been placed for the convenience of club members.

  • A moment and he turned to Terry again, to find that he, too, was lost in a rapt contemplation of the Hills.

  • She paused a moment and then as if she could restrain herself no longer, as if the flood of her speech had been loosened, she went on rapidly in a low but intense tone.

  • The gleam of a policeman's badge in these mountain wilds relieved my anxiety for a moment and made me ashamed of my fears.

  • But the cold air braced me after a moment and I went around to the drug store, where the dead were being brought in and the poor actresses and chorus girls were coming in with scarcely anything on them.

  • With a gliding, caressing movement that made beholders' blood run cold it crept upon such victims, hovered a moment and glided on with sinuous motion and what approached a suggestion of intelligence in searching out those who fled before it.

  • The people were wonderfully calm, it seemed to me, for so crucial a moment and it was not until the smoke filled the house that they became frantic and screamed for help.

  • The passionate minister glared at the youth for a moment and said: "Charles, do you deny that she is the child of a player?

  • She trembled, hesitated a moment and acquiesced.

  • She turned her frightened eyes to his for a moment and answered: "No.

  • Lupin reflected for a moment and said, thoughtfully: "Yes .

  • She lowered her eyelids for a moment and reflected as if she were vainly trying to bring back a recollection that escaped her.

  • He reflected for a moment and exclaimed: "Oh, who cares?

  • Uncle Peabody met me there in a moment and brought a pail of water and washed my face so that I felt and looked more respectable.

  • I clung to my aunt's dress for a moment and then I found old Shep and sat down beside him with my arm around his neck.

  • She rose in a moment and beckoned to me and my uncle.

  • Do you wonder that I stop a moment and wipe my glasses when I think of it?

  • He was silent a moment and wore a rapt expression.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moment and" 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:
    acetic ether; after three; anything could; aught else; considerable sum; for good; good shot; hollow place; independent company; moment after; moment afterward; moment afterwards; moment ago; moment and; moment and then said; moment later; moment like; moment longer; moment looking; moment only; moment when; momentary pause; nous sommes; telling him; theatre party; this art