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Example sentences for "motion"

Lexicographically close words:
motibus; motif; motifs; motile; motility; motioned; motioning; motionless; motionlessly; motionlessness
  1. All motion generates warmth, Shaking (with cold) is motion, Ergo, shaking with cold generates warmth.

  2. The alien's eyes were closed and he had stopped the constant motion of his leathery grey fingers; he sat immobile, like a giant statue, almost a part of the complex of the hall and the crumbling domed building.

  3. Therefore the different bodies of troops, with the exception of Averell's cavalry, which had followed McCausland toward Moorefield after the burning of Chambersburg, were all in motion toward Halltown on August 6.

  4. He will not even move a bench nor make any motion that looks like labor.

  5. The corn slid down the convexity of the lower stone, and by the motion of the upper one was ground in the passage.

  6. The argument was actually commenced on that day and continued until the next, at which time the motion was ordered off the calendar because meantime Mr. Sharon had deceased.

  7. Moulin then appealed to the Circuit Court from the judgment in his favor, and at the first term I held, a motion was made to dismiss the appeal.

  8. A motion was also made for a new trial in that case, and from the order denying the new trial an appeal was also taken to the Supreme Court.

  9. What did the motion that Judge Terry made with his right hand indicate to you?

  10. A bill introduced by yourself, increasing and changing the numbers of the judicial districts of the State, had passed the Legislature, and became a law some weeks before the motion to impeach Judge Turner was called up.

  11. For them to proceed with this motion would be a contempt of the United States Circuit Court.

  12. It created a perfect outburst of indignation, and some one moved that the petition should be thrown out of the window; and the motion was passed almost unanimously.

  13. The presentation of this bill and the argument on the motion of the Attorney-General to dismiss it produced a good deal of hostile comment against the Judges, which did not end when the motion was granted.

  14. The simple reading of the record recalls vividly to my mind all of the circumstances of the case and enables me to answer your inquiry in regard to the indefinite postponement of the motion to impeach Judge Turner.

  15. The motion picture theatres in general in Petrograd were not showing the ordinary romances that we see in this country in films.

  16. The motion picture was used largely for educating the people and showing the development of industry, the proper care of children and the advantages of sanitary conditions.

  17. Remove the sting by a scraping motion with a knife blade or some hive tool you happen to have handy.

  18. A Group of Happy Farm Animals] One blow, yell, jerk, or even a threatening motion will often obliterate all the work you have done.

  19. It means that the person has never in its presence made a motion sufficiently sudden to startle the timid creature nor lost his patience or self-control once during many trials.

  20. All eyes were kept in constant motion to catch a glimpse of the towers and pinnacles, of which we felt sure we were now within a mile.

  21. Voltaire said the factions at Geneva were storms in a teacup; if any man will study the motion of water in a teacup, he will be at no loss to understand the hurricanes of the Atlantic.

  22. Rallings and Augustine Smith two of the witnesses thereto is admitted to record, and upon the motion of the said Eliza.

  23. He voted against Madison's motion to postpone consideration of the bill for a general assessment to support religion, which carried,[695] thus killing the bill.

  24. Or "when a motion is made by the Commonwealth against an individual .

  25. The Mississippi question was dropped for the moment; the Constitutionalists rallied and carried Corbin's motion to debate the new Government clause by clause in accordance with the original resolution.

  26. A bill to this effect was presented and the tidewater machine was oiled and set in motion to put it through.

  27. With a nervous motion he leaned forward and pressed the electric bell long and hard.

  28. Fraide wants the great move set in motion by a great speech--and he has asked me to make it.

  29. The car was moving slower; there was a delight in the easy motion through the fresh, early air.

  30. If this news comes before the Easter recess," he went on, "the first nail can be hammered in on the motion for adjournment.

  31. Sickness has infirmity and feebleness in every motion and utterance.

  32. In this motion he must be careful to keep the arm from the body.

  33. The countenance open; the forehead smooth; the eyebrows arched; the mouth just not shut; and the eyes passing with an easy motion from object to object, but not dwelling long upon any one.

  34. As this motion of the arm is somewhat complicated, and may be found difficult to execute, it would be adviseable to let the pupil at first speak without any motion of the arm at all.

  35. And in learning to dance be particularly attentive to the motion of your arms, for a stiffness in the wrist will make any man look aukward.

  36. He cannot but be conscious of every motion that arises in the whole material world, which he thus essentially pervades; and of every thought that is stirring in the intellectual world, to every part of which he is thus intimately united.

  37. Mike had to turn about and blast again to check his motion when he arrived.

  38. When he was in motion and essayed to pause, his whole body tended to continue forward with a sedate toppling motion that brought him down flat on his face.

  39. The Platform, in fact, became the center of a swarm, a cluster, a cloud of infinitesimal objects which would always accompany it and always be in motion with regard to it.

  40. The little ship now had a slight motion away from the Platform, due to the instant's tugging by its rockets before they were released.

  41. If the rocket from Earth turned north or east it would continue to move up and merely add the other motion to its vertical rise.

  42. He could not hear what they said, but it was not long before he knew from the greater motion of the vessel that they must have hoisted sail.

  43. When the motion of the vessel ceased, two of the Spaniards rushed up the companion-way and called on the crew frantically to hoist the foresail.

  44. The Mirandola was moving very slowly; the motion of the tide was indeed almost imperceptible, and Dennis, being a good swimmer, soon came under her counter.

  45. The men came running from below with the news that the water was gaining more and more rapidly; the vessel was settling down; her motion had almost ceased.

  46. He even made a jerky motion over one shoulder, with his thumb, indicating a bunk that extended along the side of the cabin, and mumbled something that sounded like, "Have a seat.

  47. He had sailed too much not to know that the vessel was under weigh, although, on a perfectly smooth sea and with no swell, there was but slight perceptible motion to the schooner.

  48. The change of motion in the vessel was now apparent to Henry Burns.

  49. When the sufferer received the fatal stab from the sacrificial knife of obsidian, the machine was set in motion on his bosom, until the blaze had kindled.

  50. Its motion was like that of an enormous water-wheel, except that, instead of revolving vertically, it turned horizontally, the way of the sun.

  51. Braid made a motion of his hand towards his son.

  52. He half turned, and with a motion of the hand indicated the two brothers, who were seated side by side.

  53. Here he is," said Harry, making a motion of the hand towards Peter Klein.

  54. Harry, with a motion of the hand towards the granite rock.

  55. Suzanne Ransom is another little motion picture girl, and she is just like Philippe's Baby Rose.

  56. Seesil Anne Johnson is a talented little girl, who has worked in many motion pictures.

  57. In Europe a motion picture theater is called a cinema.

  58. These thoughts disturbed him all the night, and a certain jealousy, or rather curiosity to listen to every motion of the lovers, while they were employed after a different manner.

  59. We have had good breezes yesterday and to-day--very welcome it is, but the motion makes writing too much labour.

  60. It is so calm, quite as smooth as a small lake; indeed there is less perceptible motion than I have felt on the Lake of Como.

  61. Often trumpets sounded and the motion of the troops seemed to quicken.

  62. It was something in the shape or a trick of motion perhaps, almost like that of a human being, with which he had become familiar and which he could not mistake.

  63. Intuition, or perhaps it was something in the motion and shape of the machine, made him believe it was the Arrow.

  64. He believed that the bench beneath him, the whole cottage, in fact, was quivering before the waves of the air, set in such violent motion by so many great guns.

  65. Old Hector appeared at one of the doors and made a slight motion with his head to his master, who said: "You may admit him now.

  66. In the intricate intrigues and factional strife which seethed and boiled in every Italian city, there could be no lack of excuse for setting the machinery of the Inquisition in motion whenever there was an object to be attained.

  67. The moon has given the mathematical astronomers more trouble than any other of the celestial bodies, for one reason because it is nearest to us and very minute deviations in its motion are therefore detectible.

  68. Mutual attraction may tend to keep the stars together, but their community of motion persists chiefly because no forces tend to interfere with it.

  69. The exceptional number of large velocities is very remarkable; the average transverse motion of the nineteen stars is fifty kilometers per second, whereas thirty is about what would have been expected.

  70. So Kepler formulated his second great law of planetary motion very simply: the radius vector of any planet describes, or sweeps over, equal areas in equal times.

  71. It is not very bright, has a rapid motion and never retreats far from the sun, so that it was a puzzle to the ancients who saw it, sometimes in the twilight after sunset and again in the twilight of dawn.

  72. The preliminary results of Van Maanen indicate motion outward along the arms, in harmony with Jeans's views.

  73. By parallactic motion is meant the apparent displacement in consequence of the solar motion which is now known with great accuracy, and amounts to 19.

  74. Identity or otherwise of spectra often indicates what stars are associated together in groups, and their community of motion is known as star drift.

  75. To Ptolemy also the earth is at the center of the celestial sphere, and it has no motion of translation from that point; but his argument fails to prove this.

  76. The troops of the Republic were, of course, put in motion to assist the officers who were entrusted with the carrying out of the conscription.

  77. Denot opened his eyes, and showed, by the slight motion of his head, that he had heard his friend's voice, but he was at the moment unable to speak.

  78. Her wheel was turning fast round, obedient to the quick motion of her foot, and her two hands were employed in preparing the flax before it was caught by the wheel; but her mind was far away from her ordinary pursuit.

  79. A litter was formed for de Lescure, for at present he found it impossible to bear the motion of riding, and Henri, the little Chevalier, Father Jerome and Chapeau, accompanied him on horseback.

  80. Again he essayed to speak, but the sister stopped him with a kind yet authoritative motion of her hand, and bade him rest tranquil a while, and so he did.

  81. That peculiar motion of the heart, that secret joining of hands, is based upon something deep and vital, some spiritual kinship, some subtle likeness.

  82. Thus may the victories of faith be won, not by noise and strife, but by the silent motion of a resistless tide.

  83. Mr. Bentley in the motion that "a scientific education is much more useful than a classic.

  84. Rufus Isaacs' son speaks of the certain ruin of his father's career if "by some unpredictable misadventure" the motion had been carried.


  85. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "motion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    motion lost; motion made; motion picture; motion pictures