Example sentences for: moments

How can you use “moments” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • One of our proudest moments came when, upon first loading into our computer the CD-ROM of the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary , we discovered that it contains 121 quotations from VERBATIM.

  • In the above paragraph, the first-person narrator, Jacob Barnes, gives the fact of a dinner, the experience of a dinner, and the value of a dinner their own self-contained moments.

  • A countdown of the century's 100 great political moments includes dubious picks, such as the Brooklyn Dodgers' relocation to Los Angeles, and predictable ones: D-Day is No.

  • After a few moments, we hear the telltale squeak of a successful transmission, accompanied by triumphal music.

  • Defenders call it a "largely episodic collection of great moments that aren't all causally linked in that comforting way we're used to" (Yahlin Chang, Newsweek ). Tom Wolfe, who attacked the book in the literary magazine Biblio on the basis of its title--without having read a word of the manuscript--draws a stinging retort from Kirn in the latest issue of Tin House , in which he writes a lovely parody of a negative review for his own book: "I consider it my duty as the author of this offensive work, to carry even further Wolfe's condemnation in hopes of neutralizing, from the start, a potentially harmful literary contagion."


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