How to Use moment in a Sentence

moment

noun
  • The moment for us to act has arrived.
  • It should only take a moment to fix the problem.
  • She stopped for a moment and peeked into the window.
  • She knew exactly the right moment to ask for a raise.
  • One moment it was sunny; the next it was pouring rain.
  • I'm very busy and I don't have a moment to spare.
  • It was a moment before she realized what had happened.
  • The sun was shining. Moments later, it began to rain.
  • War seemed unavoidable at that moment in history.
  • We had an exciting vacation. There was never a dull moment.
  • But the four of us took a moment.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Have your heart set on a moody moment?
    — Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Take a moment to let that sink in.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2025
  • This is a sad moment for my school.
    — Arkansas Online, 22 Jan. 2026
  • There is no a-ha moment in that song.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
  • What did that moment mean to you?
    — Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2025
  • A lot of us have had our moments this year.
    — Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Those small moments are not small.
    — Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
  • There’s a moment when those things changed.
    — Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 5 Nov. 2025
  • A lot of ups and downs, a lot of close moments.
    — Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • These are the sports moments that are just meant to be.
    — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 6 June 2026
  • Clav, as he’s known, has had a moment this year.
    — Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2026
  • There’s so much light and so much warmth in that moment.
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Ours is a moment for the Greeks.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The musty, dusty smell of old books brings me back to those moments.
    — Hazlitt, 7 June 2023
  • For one thing, a quick scan on my feed shows me all of the best moments.
    — John Brandon, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
  • Swift had a lot going on at that moment.
    — Shannon Carlin, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Perfect for a city hall moment in the spring.
    — Vogue, 6 Mar. 2026
  • In many ways, the book was a product of its moment.
    — Time, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Brown granite had one of those copy and paste moments.
    — Heather Bien, Southern Living, 29 Oct. 2025

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