How to Use of moment in a Sentence

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  • In their own way, each had been on the other side of this kind of moment for years.
    Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2020
  • And this was the very type of moment that set up as a Victor Oladipo moment.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2022
  • This is what the Rock Hall Ceremony was meant for – a once-in-a-lifetime kind of moment.
    Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 20 May 2021
  • DeSantis is now enjoying the kind of moment of which pols dream.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Again, here’s a know-your-personnel type of moment from Clarkson.
    Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Jan. 2022
  • But this serendipity extends beyond the hiring of Tuck itself, to the meeting of moment and figure ready to make the most of it.
    Howard Megdal, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
  • There’s the moment where Candy’s lawyer, Don Crowder, talks about the sort of innate ability for anyone to sort of have that snack kind of moment.
    Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2022
  • This, ultimately, is the kind of moment that stays in the memory longer than a clever revelation of who killed whom, and why.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 31 May 2021
  • Jordan’s sneakers have been having something of moment of late.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 29 Oct. 2021
  • In a normal season, that might signal some sort of moment to begin to sprint, the starter’s pistol firing for a second time to indicate the final lap.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Advertisement Under Dutcher, the Aztecs have mined basketball’s open market for this type of moment.
    Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2023
  • This year, from the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, has been that sort of moment, surreally extended and bloated, composed of a cascade of mini-moments too rapid to process.
    Elizabeth Winkler, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Exactly the kind of moment, arguably, when purpose is actually tested.
    Cassie Werber, Quartz, 24 Aug. 2022
  • That unexpected levity during a collective emotional pause was exactly the kind of moment that makes the joy of live music so impossible to replicate.
    Joe Lynch, Billboard, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Apart from the empty stadium, due to ongoing pandemic restrictions, this was the type of moment Bale imagined producing on his return to Tottenham after seven years.
    Rob Harris, Star Tribune, 1 Nov. 2020

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