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Example sentences for "movement"

Lexicographically close words:
move; moveable; moveables; moved; moveless; movements; movens; mover; movere; moveri
  1. Israel's use of comprehensive closures decreased during the next few years and, in 1998, Israel implemented new policies to reduce the impact of closures and other security procedures on the movement of Palestinian goods and labor.

  2. Tumble in, you men," ordered Connelly, and at the moment there came a general movement of the crowd in their direction.

  3. Revival of Learning' is a phrase only partially true when applied to that mighty intellectual movement in Western Europe which marked the fifteenth century and the beginning of the sixteenth.

  4. A 'caprice' then is a movement of the mind as unaccountable, as little to be calculated on beforehand, as the springs and bounds of a goat.

  5. She sat on the old rocking-chair, swinging backwards and forwards, and beating her hands upon her knees in silence, and making no movement to comfort the wailing little creature on the bed.

  6. More or less motion is observed in various kinds of free cells, but the movement of diatoms is not evident in those without either a raphe or a keel upon which and apparently by which the phenomena are produced.

  7. No satisfactory explanation of the movement has ever been made.

  8. Any unwise movement of opposition might upset his still unsteady throne.

  9. He told them that he would hear nothing of such changes, but he did not molest or persecute them, and let the movement take its course.

  10. The most unhappy result of the movement has been to drive the Nonconformists, to whom High-Church doctrine was particularly repulsive, into a deeper antagonism to the Church than they ever felt before.

  11. Pitt's judicial attitude towards the movement had at last changed.

  12. The fear that the Tractarian movement would lead to widespread conversions to Romanism turned out to be unjustified.

  13. The movement fell flat, and at the General Election, which occurred in the middle of the war, the Salisbury cabinet was replaced in power with a very large majority.

  14. This movement came to maturity in the earlier years of George III.

  15. The movement in Scotland was a signal for the general rising of the English Royalists.

  16. This discontent took shape in the Canadian rebellion of 1837, a movement almost entirely confined to the French-speaking districts, and easily suppressed by the loyalists, aided by a few British troops.

  17. The movement was natural, but quite unconstitutional; still more so was the next step of the soldiery.

  18. Parnell himself died in 1891, but the schism continued and lasted for nearly ten years, destroying much of the power of the Home Rule movement and the Irish party.

  19. Reaching the road, the Comet went more steadily; and when the procession wound into the paved thoroughfares, the movement was comparatively easy.

  20. He spoke decisively, and made a movement as though he would head a rush towards the steps.

  21. From the basket car a man watched every movement of the countryside through his field-glasses, and conversed from time to time through a telephone with the kite section down below.

  22. It is the common experience of every movement when it swells beyond two members: or conspiracies would be much more dangerous to their foes.

  23. The League movement must collapse within a week.

  24. Prompt action would inevitably kill the boycott movement at home.

  25. There is a movement among the colliers over Barfold Rise.

  26. How the movement spread is a matter of history.

  27. In some of its aspects the success of the movement erred in excess.

  28. With an impetuous movement of his arm Sir John swept books, trays, and insects into one chaotic heap, and spreading the summary before him plunged into it forthwith.

  29. But not the faintest tremor of a movement stirred the body otherwise from head to foot, and in the chilling absence of expression the simile occurred to Hampden of bubbles rising from some unseen working to the surface of an inky pool.

  30. They don't understand the double quick time movement out here.

  31. There was a slight movement of his body, but no reply.

  32. But he could detect no movement in the house.

  33. Some of the channels were lined with a very fine, delicate yellow, silky material, which vibrates at every movement of the waters.

  34. At about the time when Bellini and his contemporaries were attaining maturity, the Renaissance had ceased to be a movement carried on by scholars and poets alone.

  35. The movement of the piston causes the water to rise on one side and fall on the other.

  36. While this attack was preparing for the unconscious Mr. Gage, he was in the drawing-room pretending to read the paper, and employing himself in watching intently every movement of Harriet Conway.

  37. She had been so much accustomed to all those attentions from him, which do not involve any speaking, that this sudden movement did not surprise her.

  38. Soon, however, he heard the patter of feet and saw a slight movement in the brush on every side of him.

  39. They saw my movement and they quickly dropped to the ground.

  40. The doctor's success and consequent enthusiasm made him oblivious of the flight of time and of the movement of the tide.

  41. My last point, omitting others, was that this movement had its origin in, and promotion by, the parties defeated in the Alcalde's court.

  42. For it is not only in the use of words but in the tone of voice, the expression of the face and the movement of the body that duplicity can be detected.

  43. The anti-slavery movement originated with the Quakers.

  44. It is surprising that so thorough an historian as Von Holst should have omitted to make mention of this speech, which really struck the key-note of the anti-slavery movement from first to last.

  45. Emerson was the elected chief of the transcendental movement on account of his influence with the public, but its true leader and representative character was Margaret Fuller.

  46. Besides the so-called transcendental movement carried him forward in a swift current.

  47. It is a state inconceivable to those who live in the noise and movement of town--who find town-life, that is, the life in which they are most at ease.

  48. Still there was no movement of the great doors across the bridge.

  49. Repeat the blessing of the deacon by the priest at mass," murmured Mr. Bourgoign to the amazement of the other, without the change of an inflection in his voice or a movement of his hand.

  50. Now and again he fell silent, glancing with a swift and furtive movement of his eyes from one to the other of his visitors and back again.

  51. But when at last Robin made a movement and she had to look him in the face, what she saw there braced and strengthened her.

  52. He made a movement towards her; but she waved him aside.

  53. Mr. Audrey--" He wheeled away from her, with a movement she could not interpret.

  54. There was a pause in the reading; but there was no movement among any that listened.

  55. There is my lord's man--" There followed a movement of feet towards the door, as it seemed to the priest.

  56. There was no blessing of himself before meat; he said something, indeed, before he sat down, but it was unintelligible, and he made no movement with his hand.

  57. It was the movement of a man crawling on his hands, drawing his legs after him.

  58. For, besides her own personal reasons for terror, there was, besides, the knowledge that the bringing of such a man at all from London on such business meant that the movement beginning here in her own county was not a mere caprice.

  59. She took it; but made no movement to open it.

  60. Every movement is performed with extraordinary precision, and at the same moment by all the dancers.

  61. Even the religious movement gives the Chinese certain advantages over all other nations of the Asiatic type of civilization.

  62. I have not the slightest expectation that any advantage will accrue to civilization or Christianity from the religio-political movement of the Tai-ping.

  63. This is not, of course, the two-movement torso which the world calls the Unfinished.

  64. The third interlude brings us that deathless melody which seems to have haunted Schubert’s imagination and reappears in the slow movement of the A minor Quartet and the B flat Impromptu for piano.

  65. Are Beethoven’s two-movement sonatas in any manner “unfinished”?

  66. And now, with the hope of communicating a portion of this pleasure more extensively, I yield this volume up as a public offering, for the advancement of those rational social enjoyments which seem to belong to the moral movement of the age.

  67. She bent over her sewing while she thought, and she might have forgotten his presence if a movement had not blocked the light.

  68. She sat hugging her knees and swaying to and fro, and with each forward movement her face neared his.

  69. I don't know," she said and there was a fluttering movement in her throat.

  70. She thought there must be something vile in her, and while she ran she felt, in her desperate youth, that she was altogether worthless since she could not control her pleasure to this swift movement supported by his hand.

  71. A murmur of voices came from the lighted room; the movement of a horse in the stables was the friendliest sound she had ever heard.

  72. Miriam dropped her head and thrust her doubled fists under her chin, in the angry movement of her childhood.

  73. Her hands, too, fell on the cow's back, and with a little movement she bade him take them.

  74. She made a movement unnatural to her in its violence, because she was forcing herself to speak.

  75. Mildred made a movement which was meant to express baffled patience.

  76. There was a gentle movement among the trees; they were singing their welcome of a peaceful night; the running of the stream came loudly, giving itself courage for the plunge into the wood.

  77. He watched the movement of events as if they were mysterious music, and instead of their causes and potentialities he tried to divine their motif.

  78. The pursuit of a good, such as is presumably aimed at in human action, was supposed to inspire every movement in nature; and this good, for the sake of which the very heavens revolved, was akin to the intellectual happiness of a Greek sage.

  79. Evil, like error, is an incident of animal life, inevitable in a crowded and unsettled world, where one spontaneous movement is likely to thwart another, and all to run up against material impossibilities.

  80. He dreams of helping to carry on and to accelerate the movement of a vast, seething, progressive society, and he actually does so.

  81. The order to attack the rear they supposed only to apply to the movement made at nine o’clock.

  82. The movement had not been premeditated by Rodney, and the signal to engage to leeward was still flying when he passed to windward.

  83. By this movement all the eleven ships of Vaudreuil’s division were cut off from the other nineteen, and forced to turn off to the west.

  84. The result of this movement had been to bring the whole of the English force opposite the rear third or half of the French.

  85. There was no movement on their part suggestive of coming invasion.

  86. Zabern therefore refrained from violence, but his keen eyes were attentive to every movement of Mosco.

  87. In truth the eye could scarcely follow the movement of the blades, which in their rapidity resembled flashes of light, rather than pieces of steel wielded by human hands.

  88. Ten minutes after midnight there was a movement at the head of the stairs; the gendarmes parted, and the white-haired clerk of the House was seen holding in his hand the paper inscribed with the momentous result.

  89. With your sanction, princess, I'll make no movement at present in this matter.

  90. She laid her hand on his shoulder, and, noting a quick movement of withdrawal, glanced down.

  91. She rose and re-arranged a very sporting dustcloth which the baroness had laid across the wounded man's legs, and which his movement had cast to one side.

  92. He reflected in silence for a moment, and Denise made, in her turn, a hasty movement of impatience.

  93. And the Abbé Susini, seeing a movement of her lips, glanced curiously at her.

  94. There was a dead silence for a moment, broken at length by a movement on the part of Mademoiselle Brun.

  95. It is nothing but the stirring of a leaf here, the movement of a branch there, which are unusual and unnatural.

  96. Then, after a pause, he made a movement of the deepest despair.

  97. He awoke, however, with a characteristic haste, and his first conscious movement was suggestive of a readiness to defend himself against attack.

  98. By an ingenious movement they doubled a slight hillock that lay between them and the woods of Belgrade, and as they came up on the other side, placed themselves directly in the path of the horseman.

  99. True, she could not but often sigh for her home and parents, but with her more settled condition fresh spirits had come to her features, and renewed energies were depicted in every movement of her graceful and lovely form.

  100. To the monarch, or his slave, he appeared unconscious of aught save the play of water; but one nearer to him would have seen that no movement of either escaped the now watchful eye of the boy.

  101. He followed her every movement with his eye, and seemed only content when close by her side, sitting near her, patient and silent; in fact he could utter but few audible sounds, and no one had ever taught the poor idiot how to talk.

  102. The idiot boy seemed to comprehend the movement instantly, and to recognize the notes that he had heard once before, and which had so affected the beautiful Circassian, nor had she fairly reached the wall before he was close by her side.

  103. Kit thought Miguel did not hesitate; his lined face was imperturbable, and he directed the helmsman with a firm movement of his hand.

  104. He thought it wavered, but the movement of the water might account for this, and Don Erminio began to pull about the weed.

  105. There was not much sea, but on the sands its movement was horizontal; it rolled across the bottom, and for the ketch to advance she must overcome its backward impulse.


  106. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "movement" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accent; action; activity; actuation; anapest; angle; approach; architecture; argument; atmosphere; background; band; battalion; bearing; beat; beck; bevy; body; bridge; brigade; bunch; burden; business; cabal; cadence; caesura; campaign; carriage; cast; catastrophe; catharsis; cause; characterization; charade; chorus; clique; coalition; coda; cohort; color; commitment; commutation; company; complement; complication; contingent; continuity; contrivance; corps; coterie; counterpoint; course; covey; crap; crew; crossing; crowd; crusade; current; dactyl; dejection; denouement; design; detachment; detail; development; device; diarrhea; direction; displacement; division; doings; drift; drive; droppings; dung; dynamics; dysentery; emphasis; episode; evacuation; exercise; exposition; fable; faction; faith; feces; figure; fleet; flow; flux; foot; front; gang; gear; genre; gesticulation; gesture; gimmick; going; group; grouping; hustle; iambic; ictus; incident; innards; interest; interlude; intermezzo; issue; jingle; journeying; junta; kinetics; lifework; lilt; line; lines; locomotion; logistics; machinery; mainstream; maneuver; manure; measure; mechanism; meter; militancy; mission; mob; mobilization; mood; motif; motion; motivation; move; movement; movements; moving; mythos; number; numbers; operation; ordure; ornament; outfit; pack; pantomime; part; party; passage; pencil; period; phalanx; phrase; plan; platoon; play; plot; poise; pose; posse; posture; principle; proceedings; progress; prosody; purgation; purge; quantity; recognition; refrain; regiment; removal; resolution; response; restlessness; rhythm; run; running; runs; salon; scheme; school; section; sewage; shift; shit; shrug; sign; signal; slant; squad; stable; stance; stanza; statement; step; stir; stirring; stool; story; strain; stream; stress; string; stroke; structure; style; subject; swing; switch; team; tendency; tenor; theme; thesis; tone; topic; touch; tourism; traffic; transit; translation; transmission; traveling; trend; tribe; trochee; troop; trots; troupe; turd; twist; unrest; variation; velocity; verse; wheels; wing; workings; works