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Example sentences for "single moment"

  • The practice of putting caps on infants is happily going by; and perhaps it may be thought unnecessary for me to dwell a single moment on the subject.

  • Were it not for this, neither fires nor candles would burn, and no animal could breathe a single moment.

  • It is of very great importance, in the formation of good habits, that he should be undressed and put to bed, at evening, with as much regularity as if be had not slept during the day for a single moment.

  • She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment's solitude.

  • I need hardly say that I am not, for a single moment, complaining that the public and the public press misuse these words.

  • You have only to reflect for a single moment, in order to be convinced that I could not augur the possibility of the pain to which you have been so unhappily exposed.

  • He had reached the outward door of the study, and his satellites had already taken the minstrel into their grasp, when the voice of the old man was heard calling upon De Walton to return for a single moment.

  • But it did not escape the notice of the little fair-haired woman in the neighboring, house for a single moment.

  • He felt, with deep horror, how all that four years of the deepest, purest happiness had done to stifle the memory of his old struggles, was baffled in a single moment.

  • She was a Jewess, and I am a good evangelical Christian, but even that did not cause a single moment of bitterness, for the God in whom we both believed, was one and the same.

  • I have never been a single moment in my life without feeling towards the king personally the most lively gratitude, the most genuine zeal, the most profound respect, and the most inviolable attachment.

  • A laborious reconstruction of a primitive and simple truth which the philosopher could not, for a single moment, have banished from his mind all the while that he was laboring painfully to demonstrate it.

  • He begged me to send you word, and to assure you that the wheel-broken do not suffer during a single moment what he suffers one half of his life, and so he wishes for death as a happy release.

  • We have thus far considered isothermal charts for the United States only, based on the temperature observations made at a single moment of time.

  • These charts show at once the average distribution of temperature for the month or for the year, just as the ones we have drawn show the distribution of temperature over the United States at a single moment.

  • We have thus far been studying isobaric charts based on barometer readings made at a single moment of time.

  • Sus, who was nearest to him, must have heard his low grumbling, but it did not induce him to change his look from the countenances of those in his front for a single moment.

  • Shall I own what a miserably conceited coxcomb I was for a single moment?

  • I turn for a single moment to call attention to the philanthropy of the proposition.

  • In the poem entitled Le Byron de nos Jours, we have a single moment of passion thrown into relief in this exquisite way.

  • Philip held out his hand without a single moment's hesitation.

  • I never even for a single moment pretended to care in a great way.

  • For a single moment he seemed about to throw himself into its depths--his long fingers, indeed, a little blue with the cold, seemed already on their way towards the genial warmth of the flames.

  • I would co-operate a thousand times with this Government to wean it from its career of crime but I will not for a single moment co-operate with it to continue that career.

  • If they have, I hope they will not wait for a single moment for a mandate from the Congress or the Moslem League.

  • If I was sure of non-violence on their part I would ask them to suspend payment to-day and not waste a single moment of the nations time.

  • Think for a single moment of that feeling which you call love, John!

  • Upon not one of them did that furious mob of men and women pause to waste a single moment of their time.

  • There is nobody in the world whom you need fear for a single moment.

  • I am sure you will pardon me if I spend a single moment in recalling the plots of these two stories so far as concerns this point of contact.

  • She had not for a single moment, however, thought that she could be helped by Cicely and Merry in this direction, and had intended to get them to come to the school simply because they were aristocratic and rich, in the first instance.

  • I don't suppose for a single moment I should dream of sending the children there; and, besides, she is not in London now, is she?

  • There is no excuse, auntie, that I can listen to for a single moment.

  • He hesitated a single moment: a moment of intense anxiety to the smiling Josephine.

  • Aubertin reflected a single moment; then said he could make a shrewd guess.


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