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Example sentences for "this moment"

  • Conseil and the sailor of the Nautilus awoke at this moment.

  • At this moment, Professor, the Nautilus is stranded in five fathoms, and we have nothing to do but to start.

  • Now, if, at this moment, the Papuans should occupy the platform, I do not see how you could prevent them from entering.

  • At this moment nothing is clear to me; I catch but a glimpse of light amidst all the darkness, and I must confine myself to writing as events shall dictate.

  • At this moment, leaning on the forecastle bulwark, I saw below me Ned Land grappling the martingale in one hand, brandishing his terrible harpoon in the other, scarcely twenty feet from the motionless animal.

  • Hogarth has caught his heroine during this moment of hesitation--this struggle with herself--and has expressed her feelings with uncommon success.

  • But the fact is doubtful; and if, in this moment of insolence, the sultan complied with the national custom, the rest of his conduct has extorted the praise of his bigoted foes, and may afford a lesson to the most civilized ages.

  • The sieges of Mopsuestia and Tarsus, in Cilicia, first exercised the skill and perseverance of their troops, on whom, at this moment, I shall not hesitate to bestow the name of Romans.

  • The Turkish squadrons poured a cloud of arrows on this moment of confusion and lassitude; and the horns of their formidable crescent were closed in the rear of the Greeks.

  • In this moment of hesitation and delay, the last of the Sassanian kings was overtaken and slaughtered by the Turkish cavalry, in the nineteenth year of his unhappy reign.

  • At this moment a message arrived, telling him about an unfortunate event that had happened in the camp three days previously.

  • The princess was brimming with emotion at this moment, but she had no time to reply to the poisonous words of the wicked Widow because the emperor was at his table, waiting for the princess, and he had sent word for her to come twice already.

  • And the moon is clear, white and beautiful at this moment when I fell.

  • The wild and piercing shriek from a woman's voice, which resounded through the court when the solemn sentence was pronounced, rings in my ears at this moment.

  • It was Mr. Pickwick's condition at this moment: he tossed first on one side and then on the other; and perseveringly closed his eyes as if to coax himself to slumber.

  • One excellent quality of Mr. Pickwick's character was beautifully displayed at this moment, under the most trying circumstances.

  • It was at this moment that Mr. Pickwick made that immortal discovery, which has been the pride and boast of his friends, and the envy of every antiquarian in this or any other country.

  • The old man uttered a loud yell which rang through the lonely fields like the howl of an evil spirit.

  • At this moment I would rather have news of that scoundrel than to have anything I know of in the world.

  • At this moment, so particular in the execution of this nice design, a bullet suddenly struck down the man at the wheel.

  • He will await their better mood, and hold himself as ready to assist them then as at this moment.

  • At this moment Mr. Boldwood came in at the gate, and crossed the green to Bathsheba at the window.

  • It was the single name among all possible wrong ones that just at this moment seemed to Bathsheba more pertinent than the right.

  • He wondered that the request should have come at this moment, for the strife was over, and they were on a most desolate hill, far from every human habitation, and the hour was getting late.

  • At this moment, on the ridge, up against the blazing sky, a figure was visible, like the black snuff in the midst of a candle-flame.

  • How fortunate I am to have dropped in at this moment!

  • But the sight of sights at this moment is Tamoszius Kuszleika.

  • Of the young girl who, somewhere at this moment, is walking the streets of this horrible city, beaten and starving, and making her choice between the brothel and the lake!

  • He knew what Ona would have had him do, what she would ask of him at this moment, if she could speak to him.

  • Say, what being is there in this world, who entering the gate of this castle at this moment, and seeing us as we are here, would suppose or imagine us to be what we are?

  • A slight breeze at this moment sprang up, and the great sails began to move, seeing which Don Quixote exclaimed, "Though ye flourish more arms than the giant Briareus, ye have to reckon with me.

  • But it was possible that her presence might not be desired by Clym and his mother at this moment of their first meeting, or that it would be superfluous.

  • At this moment one of the heath-croppers feeding in the outer shadows was audibly shaking off the clog attached to its foot.

  • Such strange thoughts as I've had from time to time, Eustacia; and they come to me this moment.

  • Obstacles were a ripening sun to his love, and he was at this moment in a delirium of exquisite misery.

  • But Charley Bates, at this moment, calling his attention by a perfectly terrific howl, he suddenly altered its destination, and flung it full at that young gentleman.

  • At this moment, Oliver looked gaily round, and nodded before he turned the corner.

  • At this moment, a low knocking at the cabin-door arrested his attention.

  • He was at this moment calculating in his mind the number of hours spent since his departure from London, and, had it been in his nature to make a useless demonstration, would have rubbed his hands for satisfaction.

  • A rap at this moment sounded on the door of the cosy apartment where Phileas Fogg was seated, and James Forster, the dismissed servant, appeared.

  • At this moment a man who had been observing him attentively approached.

  • My gas-burner, which I forgot to turn off, and which is at this moment burning at my expense.

  • Mr. Fogg was perfectly tranquil; and yet his whole fortune was at this moment at stake.

  • Laugh," exclaimed Rosa, frantic with grief, "laugh at this moment!

  • At this moment, the shutter of a window opened, and disclosed the sallow face and the dark eyes of the young man, who with intense interest watched the scene which was preparing.

  • About nine o'clock he heard a great noise in the street which made him tremble, at this moment he was paler than a real invalid, and shook more violently than a man in the height of fever.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "this 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:
    king over; thin slices; this arrangement; this business; this city; this crisis; this difference; this effect; this end; this journey; this matter; this minute; this movement; this nature; this occasion; this parish; this passage; this phenomenon; this piece; this plant; this power; this question; this river; this road; this state; this view