the moment

noun

: as soon as

The moment the cameras are turned off, he is able to relax.

Everything stops the moment she walks in the room.

Examples of the moment in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Parents can turbocharge this superpower from the moment their infant is born by taking a few easy steps. —Giselle E. Navarro-Cruz, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2024

Or perhaps this will finally be the moment that the House bullies are tamed? —Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2024

Superyacht sales aren’t so super The super-rich are keeping their distance from superyachts, at least for the moment. —Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 18 Apr. 2024

Everything outside the moment falls away, like a blurred background in an Impressionist landscape. —Krista Stevens, Longreads, 17 Apr. 2024

Roberta Parks, a professor at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith and an astronomy enthusiast, said the moment of totality will happen at 1:51 p.m. and last for two minutes. —Sadie Lacicero, arkansasonline.com, 7 Apr. 2024

While the whole eclipse (partial to full to end) lasts a few hours, totality (the moment on truth) only lasts between 3-4 minutes. —Eric Henderson, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2024

From the moment of liftoff, the documentary shows, there were questions about the impact of a piece of lightweight foam that peeled off the rocket launcher and hit the left wing of the reusable spacecraft, which had been on 27 previous missions. —Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2024

Nearly all of Whiteman’s family was there recording the moment and taking pictures. —Amber Ferguson, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2024