How to Use in motion in a Sentence

in motion

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• 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
• This past weekend offered a vivid reminder of that purpose and our mission in motion.
  — Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 9 July 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Just before the big news dropped, the Grammy winner appeared on New Heights — as Travis’ proposal plans were in motion, Swift later revealed.
  — Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 10 July 2026
• The German robot developer Neura has put more than a thousand industrial workers in motion-capture suits, and is using these data to train humanoids.
  — Stephen Witt, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
• Wild Horses in motion embody independence and freedom, evoking the wide-open landscapes and frontier spirit central to the American narrative.
  — Amanda Greenwood, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 May 2026
• But as soon as Rena Owen comes to the fore as Tala, Moana’s spirited grandmother (an elderly rebel who’s going to set this tale in motion), her playful aging-hippie spark connects.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 8 July 2026
• According to the recall notice posted by the NHTSA, the transmission park pawl may engage while the vehicle is in motion, resulting in park system damage.
  — Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 30 June 2026
• Both took the witness stand in days of testimony as defense attorneys Reid Kingsbury and Linda Parisi argued that Sergio Harris fired the first shots that killed Payton friend Turner and set the massacre in motion.
  — Reeti Malhotra, Sacbee.com, 21 July 2026
• Digging a path between oceans The Bucyrus story begins in 1880 in Bucyrus, Ohio, where the Bucyrus Foundry and Manufacturing Company produced steam shovels for a country in motion.
  — Malika Bowling, USA Today, 3 July 2026