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Example sentences for "one moment"

  • Just as they were gaining it Malkiel the Second cried out,-- "One moment, sir!

  • One moment; look at this--it is something which may interest you.

  • One moment more, and her equipage would pass!

  • She enchants me at one moment, and drives me to despair the next," sighed the marquis.

  • She will be there in one moment," replied the doctor.

  • In one moment," replied Olympia; "I must return to take a last kiss from my son.

  • Herbert's the only one of you three who has never given me one moment's anxiety, and of course poor Herbert must be passed over in absolute silence.

  • In one moment he thought out a hundred scenes of massacre and pillage--scenes such as he knew only too well always precede and accompany the blessings of British rule in distant dependencies.

  • I started at the slightest noises; I dreamed of dreadful things; I was ready to cry without reason at one moment, and to fly into a passion without reason at another.

  • Not a vestige seemed to be left of the raging, shouting creature of my first visit, who was Napoleon at one moment, and Shakespeare at another.

  • At one moment he would frighten you, and at the next he would set you screaming with laughter.

  • Stay, one moment, Senor, for the love of God!

  • One moment, Miss Saltonstall," he said hurriedly; "there is no danger.

  • One moment," said Maruja, almost harshly, to the driver.

  • One moment," she continued, drawing her purse from her pocket brusquely.

  • One moment, Mrs. Branford," put in Kennedy, as politely as he could.

  • One moment, please," he added, anticipating the blank look of amazement on her face.

  • One moment, Prescott," interrupted Kennedy, detaining him with a look.

  • My ticket is bought, and I shall no longer hold that little discourse which I have held for months, that, 'Sir executioner, one moment.

  • Stay but one moment--one moment only--I have been robbed.

  • At one moment he thought of galloping ahead and leaving her, then of breaking the vow of muteness she seemed to be imposing on him, and he kept thinking: "It ought to be either one thing or the other.

  • The wind rustled the buds; the stars, one moment bright as diamonds, vanished the next.

  • Suddenly, however, the reappearance and disclosures of the shepherd who had saved his life during infancy in one moment threw a dazzling but funereal light upon the previous discoveries that else had seemed so trivial.

  • I'm terrible feared as little Maurice has quite strayed away and got lost, and here am I, a-standing talking to you when there ain't one moment to lose.

  • One moment, one moment first, Maurice," said Cecile.

  • If, one moment, you wander'd, think only it was More deeply to bury the past love.

  • At one moment he rose--rose and open'd the door, And wistfully look'd down the dark corridor Toward the room of Matilda.

  • Then he lifted his eyes, and saw round him unfurl'd, In one moment of splendor, the leagues of dark trees, And the long rocky line of the wild Pyrenees.

  • The battle was keenly contested, and at one moment it seemed as if success was going to declare itself in favor of the Mongols.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "one moment" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another week; away home; ces deux; foreign language; one another; one case; one corner; one day; one direction; one end; one foot; one half; one has; one hundred years ago; one large octavo volume; one ounce; one piece; one pound; one thing; one thousand; one thousand five hundred and ninety; one was; one way; one which; one will; preserve them