Gibberne, and we halted for a moment before a magnificent person in white faint-striped flannels, white shoes, and a Panama hat, who turned back to wink at two gaily dressed ladies he had passed.
I suppose I wasn't on the landing a moment before he found out I was there.
Moved and greatly puzzled, but no longer thinking of the temptation of a moment before, Guy looked at her and nodded his head gravely, like a physician who finds a patient's illness more serious than the latter is willing to acknowledge.
There was no guard at the door that stood open to the street, and we halted a moment before it to make sure of our plans.
His voice, so smooth and businesslike a moment before, changed suddenly to a growl.
Her eyes sank as though she knew which had won the victory, and a proud, scornful look took the place of the grave good humor that had been there a moment before.
Then his eyes fell, and he paused a moment before replying in his high inflexible voice.
At that door a moment before, the lookout suddenly had given a startled stare and a suppressed cry.
A moment before I think I had just a sneaking suspicion of jealousy that a woman--even Elaine--should interest my old chums.
Filled with wonder, and misgivings now, and quite as much embarrassed at the woman's pleadings as the woman herself had acted a moment before, Elaine tried to wave her off.
A moment before, on the roof of a building across the street, one might have seen a bent, skulking figure.
He began to speak again, and words rose to his lips, of which, a moment before, he had had no idea, but which he now knew for absolute truth.
At that same instant, with a crash that shivered the air, the immense metallic power house gave way and was swept tumbling, like a hill torn loose from its base, over the very spot where a moment before we had stood.
But when he disappeared from before their eyes, they paused, staring in amazement at the place where, but a moment before, he had stood, but where now only the metal weapon he had wielded lay on the floor.
The Frenchman hesitated a moment before replying; possibly thinking that what he was about to say would be novel, and hard for them to understand.
His amazed sister-in-law gaped at him for a moment before it stole upon her that this was his way of asking for bread.
Jack, who had left the little group a moment before, now returned.
Jimmie glared back, and the eyes of the two fenced for a moment before a twinkle of humor appeared in those of the Captain.
Before he reached the middle of the stairs the lights, which had been burning brightly a moment before, suddenly went out, and the interior of the submarine yawned under his feet like a deep, impenetrable pit.
The foreman of the jury, a gentleman with a broad red face, had to wait a moment before speaking.
Duvillard, but a moment before so full of serenity, with his lofty, conquering, disdainful mien, now suddenly became pale and agitated.
A moment before it had been floating proudly enough, shaking its folds loose to the light breeze.
Be sure she saw him laid there at his manly length, inert, with cheeks only a little paler than they had been as he stood looking down into her eyes a moment before he strode away.
The Commandant eyed him grimly for a moment before turning to her.
She stood in the doorway; and Dominique--a moment beforeso bold--lowered his eyes before hers.
Utterly futile were all his blows: his frantic, piercing screams of fear and agony raised to heaven, but were answered with no greater mercy than that he would have shown to Ben a moment before.
Fenris's three brethren had slipped away, perhaps wholly mystified and deeply awed by their madness of a moment before; and from the ridge top they had called for their leader to join them.
Excessive bravery had played no part in the scene of a moment before.
A moment before, with railroads and steamships at her command, with a hundred men standing ready to do her bidding in response to the magic of her check-book, she had been as much mistress of her little world as any ancient queen.
He had hungered for her lips--the very lips Hamilton, a moment before, had attempted to violate.
The next suggestion that leaped into Monte's mind was obvious enough, yet he paused a moment before voicing it.
He broke his fall with an outstretched left hand, while the bullets of Diaz pumped into the void space which his body had filled a moment before.
After that it was only a moment before a fire sputtered feebly and smoked at her feet.
A moment beforehe had been hand in hand with all the mirth in that place.
The girls had gone aloft only a moment before, but, dreading news of further evil, Pappoose came fluttering down.
There in front of Dean stood Pappoose, her hands clasped lightly over the hilt of the saber the "striker" had leaned against the lid of the mess chest but a moment before, her lovely face smiling up into the owner's.
Pappoose, her brown eyes studying his face as unflinchingly as had her father's gaze a moment before.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moment before" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
