How to Use in motion in a Sentence

in motion

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  • My ideas from this trip will be some of my best ever, once in motion.
    Datwon Thomas, VIBE.com, 8 Aug. 2026
  • The woman jumped on his hood and fell off while the vehicle was in motion.
    Sofia Saric, Miami Herald, 21 July 2026
  • Bright blue, neon green, tie-dye shades, and more—this set puts the summer rainbow in motion.
    Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 4 July 2026
  • To pause the wheels in motion, connect with your child before parting ways.
    Katrina Donham, Parents, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Identity here is very much in motion, much like the young athletes themselves.
    Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Andre had been thinking about solar for a while and one shocking electric bill set things in motion.
    David Wade, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • This past weekend offered a vivid reminder of that purpose and our mission in motion.
    Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 9 July 2026
  • The wheels are in motion, and Liverpool want to do the deal at around £100million.
    Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Barbecue, as a tangible thing (and an idea) is always in motion.
    Adrian Miller, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 July 2026
  • The East Palace begins with a funeral that sets many of the events of the series in motion.
    Kayti Burt, Time, 17 July 2026
  • The Lancers have used Rhoa (6-5, 300) as a blocker in motion.
    Dan Albano, Oc Register, 3 Aug. 2026
  • To that end, Milojo consistently has a wide variety of projects in motion.
    Amy Amatangelo, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Eadweard Muybridge, among the first to put pictures in motion, knew by instinct that many of those pictures should contain naked people.
    Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
  • If an organization receives an alert that a weapon is present, human protocols should already be in motion.
    David Ly, Forbes.com, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Instead, the marketing team (or the AI) creates a brief that sets everything else in motion.
    Phoena Pang, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • According to this chorus of Cassandras, the scheme, like many complicated plots, may have been in motion for a year—or far longer.
    James Robenalt, Vanity Fair, 27 July 2026
  • Two things are always in motion, the agent's confidence and the person's trust, and an interface that ignores both will feel wrong long before anyone can say why.
    Ravi Palwe, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • The guide reluctantly agrees, a decision that ultimately leaves the friends trapped deep inside the cave system and sets the film's events in motion.
    Isadora Wandermurem, Time, 29 July 2026
  • That score held until two outs in the ninth, when Smith delivered the game-tying single that set the Giants’ latest loss in motion.
    Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Tectonic plates are constantly in motion, and along the San Andreas fault, this movement is at a rate of 1-2 inches per year.
    New Atlas, 28 June 2026
  • Reading on night trains has always been a refuge for travelers; in motion, a book could be shelter, could be comfort, a lantern, as Walter Benjamin said.
    Literary Hub, 28 July 2026
  • The site is open and ready to welcome campers from Friday, though plans are already in motion to enhance the facilities through 2027.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 29 July 2026
  • Despite having tripled just a couple of years ago, plans to double the size of the College Football Playoff already seem to be in motion.
    Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 10 July 2026
  • The personalized skin care is based on a diagnostic method called Skin Morphosis, which analyzes skin at rest as well as in motion.
    Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Confident, impressive output that turns out to be flawed only next quarter gives the C-suite false comfort while the consequence is already in motion.
    Michael Lukianoff, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Because humans can readily resolve patterns in motion — when points move in the same direction, the brain groups them into a unified whole — the moving dots appear as faint letters.
    Leslie Katz, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • For thousands of Nairobi commuters, choosing a matatu is choosing an aesthetic – a daily encounter with a culture that reinvents itself in motion.
    Diego Menjíbar Reynés, Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2026
  • The couple just stole $10 million — a theft consequential enough to set the entire story in motion, yet also too boring to depict outside a brief flashback?
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 15 July 2026
  • There was no idle time as players and coaches were in motion in preparation for a new era of playing at the highest-classification FBS.
    Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Reps spend more time revisiting deals, adjusting strategy and trying to push forward opportunities that are already in motion.
    Jeff Winters, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026

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