Every day we reach a moment when we long for sleep, and, although it be the very likeness of non-existence, can anyone deny that sleep is a pleasure?
There was a moment when I almost began to fear that you would slip through my fingers.
But my foot was still on the hawser, and I felt that it was steadily, although very slowly, yielding, and there was a moment when I could almost have sworn that I felt the ship jerk ever so slightly sternward.
Your men fought like fiends, and struck some very shrewd blows; indeed there was a moment when I began to think that Captain Ricardo had made a serious mistake in determining to run down and lay you aboard.
Probably after the latter has ceased chasing, he is caught; and at a moment when he is not in fault he is most brutally thrashed, knowing or not knowing what he is thrashed for.
You shame me, sir, by such kindness at a moment when a less magnanimous man would have believed himself justified in heaping me with insult.
Yes, there was a moment when I forgot myself, but it is past.
And all this at a moment when he was battling for life and death with a peril which required younger and more unbroken energies than his own!
My remark referred to the absence of the officer in charge of the gun-boat from the station allotted to him, at a moment when an armed vessel of the enemy is in sight.
My perfect knowledge of the country suggested to me, as the safest and most secure hiding place, the creek whence you saw me issue at a moment when it was supposed the American had altogether escaped.
The doctor handed this note to Mary, at a moment when Mrs. Van Horne was bending over Elinor.
But there was just one little moment when I knew what I was going to do, when it came upon me that the way I had chosen before was the wrong one, and this new way the right one.
Why, Mr. Thresk, did you wait till the very moment when Mrs. Ballantyne was going to be definitely committed to a particular line of defence before you announced that you could clear up the mystery?
My remark referred to the absence of the officer in charge of the gun boat, from the station allotted to him, at a moment when an ARMED vessel of the enemy is in sight.
And this, too, at a moment when it became only too apparent that the boat was rapidly sinking.
Valerie to Crevel at a moment when he sat down by her on the sofa.
This is a moment when a woman who is neither too fat nor too thin, but like Valerie, elegant and slender, displays divine beauty.
There is a moment when passion is astonishingly inventive.
He had not enjoyed it for half a moment when he heard a slight noise in the garden.
It was published in the papers at a moment when a lull in the war gave leisure for private gossip, and the gossip accordingly raged hotly.
There had been a moment when it seemed possible that Mrs. Stringham, returning to America under convoy, would pause in London on her way and be housed with her old friend; in which case he was prepared for some apparent zeal of attendance.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moment when" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
