How to Use moving in a Sentence
moving
adjective- He gave a moving speech at the memorial service.
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Whether in the windup or the stretch, there aren’t very many moving parts.
—Michael Beller, SI.com, 3 May 2018
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The tribute at the top of the show was very moving and well done.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2022
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Domingo nails it and is very moving.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 9 June 2026
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Still, the most moving parts in all three books come from those recordings.
—Craig Fehrman, Outside Online, 16 May 2018
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This was hands-down the most moving performance of the evening.
—Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 16 Jan. 2023
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Seong-ho pumped his crutches in the air in one of the most moving moments of the night.
—Author: Ashley Parker, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Feb. 2018
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Keep the non-moving leg still, and the arm on that same side flat to the ground with the palm facing down.
—Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 6 Feb. 2023
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Martin says that pricing his work was a bit of a moving target.
—Amiah Taylor, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2022
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In-game time barely even progressed as the boss, for all her moving parts, couldn’t move at all.
—Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 27 June 2017
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While the location was set from the start, the date was a bit of a moving target.
—Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2022
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This is the explicit truth at the heart of the movie's most moving moments.
—Joshua Rivera, GQ, 27 Mar. 2018
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One of the most moving scenes is their denial of this contract to their own children.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2023
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Lee is a patriot at heart, and that’s always the most moving thing about his work.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2020
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The profile for the ideal head coach, though, is a moving target.
—Jarrett Bell, USA Today, 30 Dec. 2020
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Estimates for the fourth quarter have been a bit of a moving target.
—Hannah Miao, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2022
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The time of the meetings was described by former staffers as a moving target.
—Kerry Flynn, CNN, 30 Sep. 2021
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Brennen says one of the most moving moments was when the granddaughter spoke to the crowd.
—Sam Gillette, People.com, 27 Feb. 2025
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The forecast was this storm was very challenging as the rain-snow line was a moving target.
—Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2020
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One of the most moving lines in Shakespeare is perhaps the simplest.
—Robert R. Garnett, WSJ, 6 July 2018
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But the choice to slow things down pays off when Galinda joins her in one of the movie’s more moving moments.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2024
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The most moving thing about Santos’s lies is how many of them could be disproved in seconds.
—Andrew O’Hagan, The New York Review of Books, 1 Feb. 2024
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For the critics and lunatic-fringers, Kapler is a moving target.
—Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 12 Aug. 2020
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One of the most moving sections of your book is on feminism in India.
—K.n.c., The Economist, 16 Aug. 2019
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The authors who feel the most successful are the ones who aren’t chasing a moving target.
—Meimei Fox, Forbes, 7 July 2022
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One of the special's most moving moments happens not on the day of the wedding, but the night before.
—Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2023
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Indeed, the task force's 1,930-square-mile goal has been a moving target.
—Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com, 4 Aug. 2020
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To me the most moving item was the cast of a skull of an unknown Dutch woman in her early 40s.
—Russell Shorto, New York Times, 17 June 2019
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To a 51-year-old whose nostalgia is far more bittersweet, what could be more moving?
—Dan Kois, Pitchfork, 17 May 2026
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It’s been very, very moving, and it’s never happened for a Norwegian film before.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 26 Feb. 2026
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