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Example sentences for "moved"

Lexicographically close words:
movable; movables; move; moveable; moveables; moveless; movement; movements; movens; mover
  1. Starting in the tenth century, a people speaking a Romance language moved northward across the Danube as far as Slovakia and settled in the area that later became Romania.

  2. Although still subject to Ottoman authority, the United Principalities moved rapidly under their newly elected leader, Alexander Cuza, to further unify and modernize themselves.

  3. The Nixon administration moved to increase economic relations with Romania, and in early 1972 legislation was pending in the United States Congress to grant that country most-favored-nation status (see ch.

  4. Hungarians first moved into the territory occupied by modern Romania in the ninth century as part of the Magyar invasion of the central European plain.

  5. Farewell," and waving her little hand in adieu, the horses moved away, and were presently lost to sight in the underbrush.

  6. And as they moved a step onward, Kitty passed first with Yorke, thereby giving Betty time to whisper to Oliver what she had overheard behind the screen.

  7. Go quietly through the crowd and watch the gentleman as he appears at supper; I'll have a word with Yorke on the subject," and they moved off in the direction of the ballroom.

  8. Betty's gesture of disapproval when he was about to give his parole had seemed to promise him assistance; could it be possible that the lovely little rebel's heart was so moved with pity?

  9. Sally Tracy moved a second big pot with the intention of hanging it on the fire, but was prevented by a tall, silent young man, who stopped his occupation of sorting out bits of lead to assist her.

  10. Then she waved her arm toward the white-clad figures behind her and the latter moved up till they were close to her.

  11. The luggage had been stowed away in the racks overhead and the girls were removing their hats when the train moved slowly from the station.

  12. It was a touching incident, and Fred was much moved when he discovered, from finding his old sweetheart and Christian Daesel quarrelling at the stable-door, that it was she who had shown him this kindness in secret.

  13. As soon as the rye was all put in the barn, he placed himself at the head of the empty waggons and the procession moved off.

  14. I put a little of it on a hot shovel, and as you know, if it's good seed it ought to jump off the shovel with a skip like a flea, but a good many of the grains never moved at all.

  15. They were moved by the same ideas; to speak of the one group is to speak of the other.

  16. Since a long time this spirit has moved Degas to revel in the observation of contemporary life.

  17. The heart of the judge was moved with pity, and the bystanders could hardly refrain from weeping with this afflicted mother.

  18. The procession then moved on, till they arrived in front of the dwelling where the parents of the child resided.

  19. It appears, from the sketch which he gave, that he was about ten years of age, when his father moved from a distant part of the state to a town in the vicinity of Boston.

  20. Even the jailer, accustomed as he was to scenes of suffering, could not witness this exhibition of parental grief without being moved to tears.

  21. It leaked on Miss Douglas and me, too, but we moved the bed.

  22. First, the day they moved must be good, and this day in October was surely perfect.

  23. He had merely been told by the Misses Grant that the tenants who had just moved into the little farmhouse were to have supper with them, when these visions of loveliness burst upon him.

  24. The three had moved along the road a short distance while she was speaking.

  25. When we moved into this house all the doors had glass knobs.

  26. Mr. Ricker removed his unseasonable headgear and moved nearer to the stove.

  27. The proprietor knew he was a stranger--perhaps just moved into town, and a prospective customer.

  28. But their enthusiasm never flagged; they never thought of turning back, but, when they were driven out of one city, moved forward to another.

  29. Such may have been some of the reflections which agitated the traveler as he moved onward, sunk in gloomy thought.

  30. When he left Athens, he moved on to Corinth, the other great city of Achaia; and he tells us himself that he arrived there in weakness and in fear and in much trembling.

  31. The Epistle to the Galatians especially was a thunderbolt hurled against his opponents in this controversy; and its burning sentences show how profoundly he was moved by the subject.

  32. On the few square feet of space allowed him he erected a fulcrum with which he moved the world, establishing within the walls of Nero's capital a sovereignty more extensive than his own.

  33. This branch of the James family moved to Germany when our author was a boy; and there he and his brothers and sister were educated for some years.

  34. When he was three years old his father moved from Martin's Ferry to Hamilton and bought The Intelligencer, a weekly paper.

  35. Early in 1897 he moved to New York, where for eight months he was associate editor of The Illustrated American.

  36. That very year, 1884, he moved to New York, put away his text-books, and plunged into the sea of literature.

  37. A few years ago Stockton moved from Convent Station, New Jersey, to Charles Town, Jefferson County, West Virginia.

  38. From that year until 1886, when he moved to New York, he lived on terms of enviable intimacy with the group of great writers which made Boston the one brilliant literary centre the country has ever seen.

  39. Nine years afterward he sold The Intelligencer and moved to Dayton, becoming proprietor of the Dayton Transcript.

  40. The Robertses moved from Woodstock to Fredericton in 1874.

  41. Seven years after his birth the family moved to Winneshiek County, Iowa, a spot typical of the primeval West; and it was here that Garland first got the vivid impressions of nature which he has so successfully pictured in his stories.

  42. Then he moved to Atlanta and went to work for the Constitution.

  43. In 1851, when William was fourteen, the family moved from the country to Columbus, where his father got employment as a clerk in the House of Representatives, and also as a compositor on the Ohio State Journal.

  44. For various reasons, particularly that he might be able to write of the South impartially and that he might be nearer the literary market, he moved to Simsbury, Conn.

  45. They were married in Indiana ten years before George was born, and they moved to New Orleans after the hard times of 1837.

  46. The first distressful event came into Robert's life when, at the age of nine, some seven years after the family had moved from New Bloomfield to Huntingdon, on the Juniata River, his father died.

  47. But the Transcript proved a failure, so the Howells family left Dayton and moved into the country on the banks of the Miami, where for a year a log-cabin was their home.

  48. All the boys stood up as the master majestically moved over to the fireplace and kicked the logs into a blaze.

  49. I looked around, moved forward a little, hastened my steps to get away, but whence or how I knew not.

  50. Her days moved on in tranquil succession, each renewing and passing forward to the next, the sunshine of its predecessor.

  51. Rama embraces both of them and is moved with their son-like touch.

  52. A glorious halo appeared before me in my dream, bright as the moon's resplendent disk; within the orb a beauteous maiden moved as gently radiant as the lunar rays in autumn skies.

  53. Her form was beauty's shrine, or of that shrine she moved as the guardian deity.

  54. Either my sincerity or the embarrassment he knew would follow my disregard of "the thing that is done" moved Mr. Gladstone's sympathy.

  55. It had been years, she said, since the old recollections had come back to her, but she had been moved by my plea for service to home women and to the great mass of ordinary American people.

  56. It is a regular nervous centre which has moved toward the periphery.

  57. Achilles with a first step is supposed to arrive at the point where the tortoise was, with a second step at the point which it has moved to while he was making the first, and so on.

  58. Colonel Drew's men moved in advance of Colonel Watie, with great alacrity, and showed no want of zeal at Pea Ridge.

  59. It was at this juncture that the Cherokees as a nation expressed their preference for the South and for the southern cause, moved thereto, however, by the peculiarities and the difficulties of their situation.

  60. Many Cherokees, likewise, took the suggestion of President Jefferson and moved to the Arkansas country prior to 1820.

  61. The same influences that moved Hubbard to write his letter to Governor Moore with special mention of the Indians unquestionably moved the citizens of Boonsboro to try,[175] without much further ado, the temper of the Cherokees.

  62. Sometime in May, therefore, a delegation was sent to Montgomery[356] to confer with authorities of the Confederate States, who by the time of the arrival of the Creeks had moved on to Richmond.

  63. In the course of time, the Office of Indian Affairs was moved from the old Post-office Building to the Pension Building; but the packing-boxes in the attic were inadvertently left behind.

  64. The men shall be armed by the Confederate States, receive the same pay and allowances as other mounted troops in the service, and not be moved beyond the limits of the Indian country west of Arkansas without their consent.

  65. Johnson moved to Washington City and became the law partner of Albert Pike.

  66. Young, once a planter of Braganza County and now state regimental colonel, moved towards the Red River.

  67. The Oval crowd, always so ferociously partisan, moved round him uneasily.

  68. Gordon looked straight at him for a second or so, then picked up a book and began to read; Rudd shifted from foot to foot for a minute and then moved out quickly.

  69. Closely, her hair on his shoulder, they moved to the dancing circle, and plunged into the throng of the shouting, jostling dancers.

  70. Moved by an instinct of courtesy, Ferrers wrote to Christy a little note, enclosing the book, and asking him to preside.

  71. The train moved majestically westward, and his reign had begun.

  72. Disconsolately his form found their books and moved out of the room, fully aware that they would shortly have to pay full price for their pleasure.

  73. And at the back of it all moved "the Bull" pulling the strings.

  74. Then the stream moved on; the picture faded out; and from the courts came the noise of motors crunching on the gravel.

  75. Gordon murmured "Thank you," and two or three Eton collars moved aside to give him room.

  76. Monks in long black robes moved about slowly, magisterially.

  77. He has solemnly declared his trust that he was "inwardly moved by the HOLY GHOST to take upon himself this office and ministration.

  78. It is too much to expect that I should be left in peace for a single day, even here," he muttered as he moved toward the stairs.

  79. The wealth that once enriched the fertile lands of the South moved northwards, and the great commercial cities of the North became the most important centres of activity.

  80. Such was the living interest of the place that the traveller moved away without any very clear architectural impression of the Cathedral, except of the curiously narrow bell-turret and of the height of the dome.

  81. But as a matter of fact, men of any caste, moved by the spirit, are found devoting themselves to the jogi life.

  82. But had no other influence been exerted on the Indian mind, one could not say what I now say, that Christ Himself is the feature of Christianity that has most powerfully moved men in India.

  83. Yet was the stir delightful to our ear, And moved to happiness our inmost blood, The sudden change, the unexpected cheer, Breaking like sunshine on a pensive mood, This breath and voice of life in seeming solitude!

  84. After the battle of Malvern Hill, our column moved on to Harrison Landing.

  85. We were moved out and formed in line of battle.

  86. The regiment was formed in line of battle, with the brigade, and was moved nearer the battle going on in front of us, with other troops engaged.

  87. On the 28th, the Regiment moved to the right of the position at Mine Run, but did not become engaged.

  88. Lunched, and was then moved up near Round Top.

  89. On the evening of the latter date the command moved to the left of the army, near Spottsylvania Court House, and remained here until the 19th.

  90. Men hissed and jeered, but the column moved on to Washington Depot, where the Regiment was embarked on cars for Washington.

  91. Breaking camp on the 26th, the command moved toward the Rapidan River, which it crossed at Germania Ford.

  92. The army moved in the night, leaving picket line established.

  93. Quickly we have moved them (their souls) on high for them, where they shall be going about in peace.

  94. The assertion that the chairs “have swiftly moved away” would seem from analogy to mean that the disease has been placed upon the seats and thus borne away.


  95. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moved" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    affected; agitated; agog; agonized; animated; aroused; bursting; ebullient; effervescent; excited; exhilarated; fired; high; imbued; impassioned; impressed; inclined; inflamed; intoxicated; manic; minded; motivated; moved; obsessed; overcome; racked; stimulated; stricken; thrilled; tingling; torn; tortured; touched; yeasty


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    moved away; moved back; moved forward; moved from; moved over; moved tones