How to Use in a moment in a Sentence
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Day by day and state by state, things can change in a moment.
—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 27 July 2023
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So got enough to get it to him and make a big play in a moment.
—Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Nov. 2025
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None of that matters in a moment like this.
—Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 14 Sep. 2025
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And in a moment like this, those choices put lives at risk.
—Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 28 Jan. 2026
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And in a moment this bleak, maybe that counts for something.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2025
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More on the weather in a moment.
—Brian Manzullo, Freep.com, 7 Mar. 2026
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More on the hearing in a moment.
—Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 26 Mar. 2026
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What would be the ideal role of the church in a moment like this?
—Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2026
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And when her score was read, both of them raised their arms in a moment of sheer triumph.
—Dallas Morning News, 19 Feb. 2026
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This is a brutish land where lives are lost and forgotten in a moment.
—Rob Salkowitz, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
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Lip stains are in a moment of evolution.
—Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 11 Mar. 2026
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More on that — and the concerns some critics have about pageants — in a moment.
—Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 21 June 2023
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Shanahan dialed up the trick play in a moment in which the team needed to break through.
—Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 12 Feb. 2024
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Perhaps that can be found in a moment that’s less about feeling and more about action.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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Leigh didn’t find out about any of this until a week and a half later (more on that in a moment).
—Theoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 10 Oct. 2025
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TikTok can be taken away in a moment.
—Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
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All their labels are a bit too busy to be classed as fully quiet—more on that in a moment.
—Mark Littler, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
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In the end, Kimmel even had to vamp for a few minutes — more on that in a moment.
—Michael Schneider, Variety, 11 Mar. 2024
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Funding a project this good, in a moment when public trust is this bad, should be a no-brainer.
—Antonio Reynoso, New York Daily News, 19 Jan. 2025
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Seeing someone across the room wrapped up in a moment – of joy, or doubt, or goofiness, or fear.
—Alden Ehrenreich, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2023
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That kind of speed and clarity in a moment of stress makes a brand memorable.
—Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
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The teen seemed to get lost in a moment while gazing at her new friend — a female bass player — on stage.
—Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 3 Aug. 2023
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There was a time when Cere would have reached out to the dark side of the Force in a moment like this.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 16 Feb. 2023
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Just a solid sense of a father’s duty to stand by his son in a moment of acute crisis.
—Washington Post, 16 June 2024
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There’s always a social code that can save you in a moment of desperate agony.
—Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2023
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But there’s a lot of new conversations taking place right now that in a moment.
—Lars Brandle, Billboard, 6 Apr. 2023
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This method worked in my case—but more on whether it’s recommended by experts in a moment.
—Melissa Willets, Parents, 7 Feb. 2024
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Polly's jaw drops in shock, and her pacifier falls out of her mouth in a moment of pure festive joy.
—Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
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The bubbles grow and press outward on cell membranes — and then, in a moment of fracture, pry them apart.
—Clare Watson, Quanta Magazine, 27 Feb. 2026
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Over the past few decades the go-to move was to simply throw out a spinning wing decoy or two (more on this in a moment).
—Joe Arterburn, Outdoor Life, 14 Nov. 2024
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