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Example sentences for "momentum"

Lexicographically close words:
momentary; momently; momento; momentous; moments; momma; mommer; mommie; mommy; mon
  1. The resolute, forceful bass tones, with which the left hand enters from time to time, seem like the impetus of a strong will giving momentum to earnest purpose.

  2. The motor buzzed and roared as he switched his levers forward, while the water pump gathered such power from the momentum that the pressure within the jackets increased wonderfully.

  3. The car tipped bodily, the inner wheels left the tracks, and at once their momentum lessened.

  4. It will not do to assume that the average of children have any such original energy or momentum to lead them to scale the heights of even ordinary knowledge.

  5. An inquiry into the history of education in Europe and in America since the Reformation will show that the movement towards nature study has been accumulating momentum for more than three hundred years.

  6. It is that which gives force and momentum to ideas.

  7. While the force of gravitation draws all the atoms of the spheroid together, their tangential momentum is resolvable into two parts, of which one resists gravitation.

  8. Quantity of matter, in a body, its mass, as determined by its weight, or by its momentum under a given velocity.

  9. Rope pump, a pump in which a rapidly running endless rope raises water by the momentum communicated to the water by its adhesion to the rope.

  10. It seems scarcely credible that this great economic movement has attained present momentum practically unheralded; yet such is the case.

  11. Its circulation was gathering momentum with every issue.

  12. With the momentum secured by its leap from the drift, it skated over the ice for a mile or more, with scarcely a thimbleful of wind in its sail, yet traveling like a fast express.

  13. When the whole lake froze solidly, the course of the sleds was continued across its level surface as far as the momentum from the hill would carry the bobs.

  14. A series of explosions following one another in rapid succession gives the moving parts of the Barry engine sufficient momentum to suck in charges, compress them, and eject the burnt gases.

  15. Since the first, second, and third operations all absorb energy, the wheel must be heavy enough to store sufficient momentum during the "power" stroke to carry the piston through all its three other duties.

  16. It delivers a blow equivalent to the momentum of a falling mass weighing 4000 tons.

  17. As a result, the economy has not gained momentum and unemployment has become a growing problem.

  18. They were over-powered by the momentum of the mob, and Lieutenant Chalfant was knocked down, as I was told by the policemen a few days afterwards, when we began to gather up our wits.

  19. The thing had been gathering momentum from ten o'clock.

  20. He cleared the last landing, with a momentum that slid him across the polished floor of the hallway after the manner of small boys who slide on ice.

  21. On and on it sped, gathering momentum with every foot she traveled.

  22. So great was the momentum that had both sets of brakes been in working order it is doubtful whether they would have stopped the vehicle.

  23. It was so slight that he did not think it meant anything; and, without noticing it further, he started on a series of quick, short steps, which were to give him the necessary momentum to win the victory over his friend.

  24. The velocity or momentum acquired may explain the momentary continuation of this movement and the explanation given in the case of No.

  25. But some one might say that, the table being already in motion, the momentum carried it along mechanically while we imagined it was yielding to our fluidic force.

  26. In the pendulum, the earth's gravitation acting alone as an enumerator of passing moments; for the momentum conferred by motion is after all but a secondary result, an offspring of the earth's attraction.

  27. At last the upward movement becomes so slow, that the impulse of momentum is lost, and the earth's attraction is again unopposed.

  28. This momentum was now driving us to the ground, in spite of our strong repelling force, and with such a frightful speed that heat was being generated by friction with the air as we rushed through it.

  29. A wild hope surged within me that the repelling metal would overcome the momentum in time to save us from destruction.

  30. But now I saw how foolishly I had erred, in omitting to take into consideration the terrific momentum we would attain in our journey of six thousand miles through space.

  31. No gentle starts, but hard at it from the top, and the harder you start the greater will be the momentum of the club when the ball is reached.

  32. No gentle starts, but hard at it from the very top, and the harder you start the greater will be the momentum of the club when the ball is reached.

  33. The longer the force applied to the down swing, the greater do the speed and momentum become.

  34. The longer the force applied to the down swing, the greater do the speed and the momentum become, but this gradual increase is independent of the golfer, and he should, as far as possible, be unconscious of it.

  35. On page 58 we read again: "No gentle starts, but hard at it from the very top, and the harder you start the greater will be the momentum of the club when the ball is reached.

  36. The longer the force applied to the down swing the greater does the speed of the momentum become, but this gradual increase is independent of the golfer, and he should, as far as possible, be unconscious of it.

  37. He was compelled to a retreat which became general along his whole front, and gathered momentum day by day.

  38. Looking out, he carefully calculated the distance to the next window and the momentum he would require to take him there.

  39. His momentum carried him right across and into the other window.

  40. Every single particle will produce a certain momentum in each of the other particles, and at the same time will have impressed upon it by each of the other particles an equal and opposite momentum.

  41. Hence when all the particles are collected into a single mass, each individual momentum will be balanced by an equal and opposite one, and there can be no resultant motion.

  42. The ability thus to stimulate the intellectual activity of others, to give it at once momentum and progress, is the true measure of one's teaching power.

  43. The teacher, then, who knows how thus to make a unit of twenty or thirty pupils, really multiplies himself twenty or thirty-fold, besides giving to the whole class an increased momentum such as always belongs to an aggregated mass.

  44. The Second Law of Motion,= sometimes called the law of momentum, leads to the measurement of force, by the momentum or the quantity of motion, produced by it.

  45. The piston rod is attached to the crank of a heavy fly-wheel and this is given sufficient energy or momentum to keep it going through the next three strokes.

  46. The formula for computing momentum is: M = mv.

  47. The constant relation, between the acting force and the change of momentum it produces in a body, has led to the adoption of a convenient C.

  48. On the other hand, it is safe to predict that this war will add momentum to the city-drift of our population and increase the number of those who form the mobile class of rural laborers.

  49. And the new activities come with all the momentum that belongs to service that seems to fulfil real needs.

  50. A moment later, with hardly a splash his plane caressed the water and glided forward under its own momentum until it came to rest directly aft of the squadron's leading seaplane.

  51. The plane's momentum decreased and she stopped with a slight jar.

  52. The plane nosed over and with increased momentum from the dip it shot upward at a precipitous angle.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "momentum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    clout; compulsion; drive; force; impetus; incentive; incitement; moment; momentum; power; propulsion; tempo; thrust; velocity