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Example sentences for "quick movement"

  • With a quick movement, I turned and saw a tremendous column of dust rising high into the evening air.

  • I sat upright, with a quick movement, and looked out through the opened door.

  • I have been burning to see you and have it out," said the man in a trembling voice; then, with a quick movement he removed a wig and revealed a young and pleasant face.

  • The words were cut short by a quick movement on the part of Barkswell.

  • With a quick movement, the tramp sprang forward and pushed up the hat of the hunter, revealing in the roots of the hair a red, ragged scar.

  • A game of guessing the number of fingers extended in a quick movement of the hand, -- much played by Italians of the lower classes.

  • The act of one who, or of that which, twinkles; a quick movement of the eye; a wink; a twinkle.

  • A sound of quick movement, as of something whirled through the air.

  • Katherine became very pale, and turned with a quick movement to Jervis, who stood looking down upon her with a smile.

  • Katherine put her hand to her throat with a quick movement, to check a hysterical desire for laughter.

  • Katharine drew it back almost before he had let it go, with a quick movement of displeasure.

  • Then she laughed softly and bent forward with a quick movement.

  • With a quick movement he seized her arm, almost where he had grasped it on the previous day, and he tried to pull her away from Ralston.

  • The two young men made a quick movement as their eyes sought the King's, and mutely asked the question: Your Majesty wishes us to go?

  • Defn: A game of guessing the number of fingers extended in a quick movement of the hand, -- much played by Italians of the lower classes.

  • With a quick movement, she arose and walked rapidly to and fro in the little room.

  • And when he now shook back the long yellow hair which shaded his brow, with a quick movement of the head, he looked like a lion shaking his mane, and preparing to do battle with an approaching enemy.

  • With a quick movement, Charlotte withdrew from his embrace, and stepped back.

  • Then, with a quick movement, he swallowed its contents and refilled it before Mr. Lavender had succeeded in absorbing more than a drop.

  • Fiorsen was standing there, and, with a quick movement, came in.

  • Then, steadying the patient’s head with the now disengaged left hand, the snare is plucked from the nose with a quick movement.

  • With a quick movement it is drawn outwards a short distance so that the point of the hook pierces the impacted substance.

  • By a quick movement of avulsion the tumour is then torn from its attachment.

  • The growth should not be cut through, as it is wiser to pluck it from its attachment by a quick movement of avulsion.

  • There is in her something undefined, something contradictory--" Kranitski made a quick movement.

  • Maryan, with a quick movement, raised his head and looked with astonishment at his father.

  • With a quick movement he put his glasses on his nose, and taking a cigarette from a beautiful box, he put the end of it at the flame of one of the candles burning on the desk.

  • The first to act was Harker, who with a quick movement, threw himself before the door leading into the room in the front of the house.

  • With a quick movement he jumped from bed, and began to pull on his clothes, all the man in him awake at the need for instant exertion.

  • Mrs. Gano's quick movement said, "That's where the matches have gone.

  • She threw back her head with a quick movement, and just as suddenly the look of courage dimmed.

  • She turned up the gas with a quick movement, and when they approached the window a glance at her future sister-in-law's face was enough.

  • She looked at him with a peculiar, earnest look, as if trying to make up her mind to a certain course, and then, with a quick movement, she shook herself free and disappeared into the back room.

  • There was a quick movement, a faint rattle, and then all still.

  • With a quick movement he jumped from the bed, and began to pull on his clothes--all the man in him awake at the need for instant exertion.

  • The first to act was Harker, who, with a quick movement, threw himself before the door leading into the room in the front of the house.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quick movement" 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:
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