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Example sentences for "move"

Lexicographically close words:
mouty; mouvement; mouvements; movable; movables; moveable; moveables; moved; moveless; movement
  1. He said no more, because they once again began to move farther away from the cabin walls.

  2. Accordingly the two pedestrians began to move along their way, following the shore line save in certain places where something out of the usual run attracted their attention.

  3. The sheriff being away, no one could tell when he would receive the letter Bluff was to leave for his perusal, and hence it might be many hours ere a move was made.

  4. I move we sit down, eat our grub, and take a few winks.

  5. Under the circumstances he thought it might be just as well to explain his queer move a little.

  6. That we ought to search the tramps now," queried the captain, anxiously; for he felt certain that this move would bring on a fight, which might add still further to the excitement of the already terrified women aboard.

  7. Frank was somewhat provoked about the happening of the preceding night, and even thought it might be advisable to move the camp away from that bluff.

  8. Already, though Frank did not know it, the treacherous soil was giving way under his weight, and this move on his part aggravated the trouble.

  9. He did not expect to enter the camp of the enemy when he parted from Will and Bluff; but now that circumstances beyond his control had caused such a move on his part, he meant to take full advantage of it.

  10. Finally Bluff gave a grunt, began to move and stretch himself, and then sat up.

  11. If the reward should happen to come our way I move we turn it over to Tom Somers.

  12. If they make a move to shoot at Jerry, we'll have to put in our oar," Frank answered with considerable feeling.

  13. This done, Oddo ran to turn over the little boat, and examine its condition: but he found he could not move it.

  14. Fain would her mother have had her in her arms at the last; but she was in such extremity that to move her would have been to end all at once; and so she died away, with her head on my shoulder.

  15. Miss Mary he requested to move to the seat opposite to him, that he might see her if he couldn't be near her.

  16. You move about the room so softly, and you speak so quietly, and touch me so gently.

  17. I never yet felt the impulse which could move me to direct this against a fellow-creature.

  18. Hortense, who for some time had been on the move ordering supper, and was now clearing the little table of some books, etc.

  19. In spite of the appalling amount of freight, Pierce believed he had enough men to move it in two trips, and when the hour came to start the Countess complimented him upon his thorough preparations.

  20. But Mr. Quirk made no move in the direction of the tent; instead he built a fire in his stove and crouched over it, endeavoring vainly to shelter himself from the driving rain.

  21. I'm going to move this outfit in small boats, two men to a boat, double crews through the canon and in swift water.

  22. Your noble red men have quit you; they dumped your stuff at the river and made a deal at double rates to move Sam Kirby's freight.

  23. Never move a sick person unless you have to.

  24. Rouletta was about to move on, when the other addressed her through teeth that clicked like castanets.

  25. I move that you apologize to Mr. Phillips.

  26. The former said, shortly: "If you make a move I'll brain you!

  27. Get a move on you, quick," Linton ordered, forcefully.

  28. They were about to move onward when there came a faint hallo, and far down the trail behind them they saw a figure approaching.

  29. Lord Elcho had reconnoitred in the direction of Nairne, twelve miles off, and reported that the English army would not move that day; they were resting in their camp and celebrating their commander's birthday.

  30. Stretched on the snow among the piles of dead and dying, unable to move in any way, I gradually and without pain lost consciousness.

  31. If I had been able to move I should have urged her forward to get away from this field of slaughter.

  32. We shall move very slowly down the Creek.

  33. Everyone who could move rushed to the quarter-deck, but those who were dying of scurvy and who could not leave their hammocks were drowned in them.

  34. She lay alone at the mercy of the waves, and unable to move save by their rise and fall, alone with her wounded and dying and her dead to whom could come no help.

  35. Without it, every railroad wheel would run hot and stop; the great turbines in our ships and modern power plants move on bearings that are smothered in petroleum oil.

  36. Thou weepest days of innocence departed; Thou weepest, and thy tears have power to move The Lord to pity and love.

  37. Let me move slowly through the street, Filled with an ever-shifting train, Amid the sound of steps that beat The murmuring walks like autumn rain.

  38. Stand, like your own gray cliffs that mock The whirlwind, stand in her defence; The blast as soon shall move the rock As rushing squadrons bear ye thence.

  39. Strike, for that broad and goodly land, Blow after blow, till men shall see That Might and Right move hand in hand, And glorious must their triumph be!

  40. Thy springs are in the cloud, thy stream Begins to move and murmur first Where ice-peaks feel the noonday beam, Or rain-storms on the glacier burst.

  41. They would select, at first, industries that used very little fixed capital; and, as we have seen, it fortunately happens that most of the industries which it is important to move are of this kind.

  42. He has but to move away from a given municipal area, and he at once, ipso facto, shakes off not only all his obligations to his landlord, but also all his obligations to his municipal creditors.

  43. Slum property will sink to zero, and the whole working population will move into houses of a class quite above those which they can now afford to occupy.

  44. Didst thou not save me when I knew I could move no farther?

  45. I do not mind the solitude--I have my flute, and the dear songs of my country; and we love not overmuch to live in a hurry, or to move about with busy hands.

  46. His pain and his despair were so evident, that King Wanda felt that no words had force to move the distracted young man.

  47. But no persuasion nor entreaty could make Eric move from that dark mound in the barren lonely wild; he meant to remain there that first night when she had been confided to the indifferent shadows that closed in around her.

  48. But those that live in the dust, whose feet move amidst the mud of the roads, cannot believe that a creature so spotless and pure can exist in this world and yet never soil its perfection!

  49. Now they watched with growing anxiety if this handsome stranger would move her heart and bring her eyes down to this earth.

  50. His next and last move was to make a pretended attempt at suicide on Alice's door-step.

  51. The voices died away; the time to move had come.

  52. For fully twenty minutes they remained thus, and the old detective was just about to order a move on to the India Basin when voices were heard at no great distance, speaking in some foreign tongue.

  53. I thought desperately for something that would move him.

  54. Danjuro's next move was to row back to Zerran Cove at top speed, and hasten up the cliff path to the inn.

  55. Before he could move again I had jerked him backwards by the legs, and had him handcuffed.

  56. How true it is that Faith can move mountains!

  57. Old Swainson answered on his Klaxon, and then the liner began to move slowly over the glittering water.

  58. Knowing what we know--or at least suspect--such a move was a certainty.

  59. That a little gray-whiskered monkey had forestalled them they did not know, nor that three pairs of savage eyes were already watching their every move and waiting for them to come within reach of itching paws and slavering jowls.

  60. The ape-man watched the every move of the strange creature.

  61. From the nearer trees the men of Mbonga saw the lion lower his great head and seize one of his victims by the shoulder and then with slow and stately tread move down the village street past the open gates and on into the jungle.

  62. As they started to clear the stern of the boat that was to starboard, Sally let the tiller move over to that side.

  63. She tried to slip through the doorway, but Ma Harper did not move aside.

  64. Then inch by inch it began to move backwards.

  65. Her best efforts would not move it an inch.

  66. We'll move the stuff as soon as it gets dark.

  67. Captain Barker had given an order for the Queen to move full speed ahead.

  68. Observing that they were coming straight toward her, Penny noiselessly waded on, taking every precaution not to move the stalks unnecessarily.

  69. But see, there's the sunshine falling on the board, to show you more clearly what a foolish move you made with that pawn.

  70. Even the verdict, to distant eyes, had not appeared to move her, but those who were near saw her trembling.

  71. Men's muscles move better when their souls are making merry music, though their merriment is of a poor blundering sort, not at all like the merriment of birds.

  72. And now you mention it, I wish she would come, for it is possible that a gentle mild woman like her might move Hetty to open her heart.

  73. They stood so a long while, for neither of them felt the impulse to move apart again.

  74. But if he should give them notice at Lady Day, Arthur and I must move heaven and earth to mollify him.

  75. Well move about a bit, shall we, and see what Adam Bede's doing.

  76. Now she was beginning to wind along the path up the hill, but Adam would not move yet; he would not meet her too soon; he had set his heart on meeting her in this assured loneliness.

  77. The moccasined toes of an expert man in this dance move with surprising rapidity, the woman, with eyes downcast, the picture of demureness, sways slightly from side to side and moves on her toes in rhythm to the man's movement.

  78. The hut was uncomfortably crowded that night with seven people in it, but the thermometer stood at -56° and was rising, and gave us hope that we might move along to-morrow.

  79. It was but ten miles above the present native village, and, with church and school established, the whole population would sooner or later move to it.

  80. He naturally favoured this spot, which it was already plain was quite out of the question, but professed his readiness to move to any place that we might decide upon, and his entire sympathy and co-operation.

  81. It was torture to move his head or to open his mouth, and I had to torture him continually.

  82. It was agreed that my mother and sister should move the things by night after the Black Jack was shut up.

  83. Yet more awful than the physical calamities which the prophet unveils throughout these terrible years are his bitter portraits of the character of his people, whom no word of their God nor any of His heavy judgments could move to repentance.

  84. Though he loved his people with passion, and pled with them all his life, he failed to convince or move them to repentance—and more than once was forbidden even to pray for them.

  85. So far as they imply that the Prophet was still able to move openly about Jerusalem and the country they might be regarded as earlier than 604, when he was under restraint and had to hide himself.

  86. XVIII, that might be from any part of the Prophet’s ministry, during which he was free to move in public.

  87. A body might as well TRY to eat his hat as move them pig-headed Dutch once they get sot.

  88. Tillie felt herself spellbound, powerless to move or to cry out.

  89. But the teacher thought it wise to make no further comment, as he saw, at any rate, that he could not move her in her resolution to defend him.

  90. By inspiration she had hit upon the one argument that would move him.

  91. I must pay him out for it, Larkyns; move away, and I'll thrash him within an inch of his life!

  92. I heard Captain Billings exclaim in a low voice, taking off his cap reverently, as soon as we were safely round before the wind; and I could see his lips move as if in silent prayer.

  93. We were going to make a move "while the day was yet young," so to speak, for it was only about five o'clock yet in the afternoon.

  94. As it was, I had to lie on the sands, whither Jorrocks had lifted me beyond the reach of the tide, for a considerable period before I could either move or speak, while Pat Doolan was in an equally sorry plight.

  95. Not even the infantry could move outside of the high road, so there was no alternative to a frontal advance along it.

  96. General Cremer received orders that night to move forward at once to Les Planches and St. Laurent with three cavalry regiments standing already on the road to Mouthe.

  97. At the same time General Cremer received orders to move from Dijon on Vesoul.

  98. It was intended that the XIVth Corps, while retaining its hold on Dijon, should also move to Vesoul and hold in check from there the gathering of hostile troops round Besancon and at Langres.

  99. The XVth Corps was next to move to the right to the Mauve and the XVIth to the left on Coulmiers.

  100. The Marshal was therefore forced to move his army further northward to Rethel, where large magazines of provisions had been established, and where the railway facilitated the bringing up of stores.

  101. Such a move seemed strange, and indeed somewhat venturesome; but nevertheless it was possible.

  102. When at about three o'clock the Prussian artillery compelled the foe to move his guns farther up the hill, the Fusiliers, with General von Francois at their head, began to climb the cliff.

  103. The cavalry had not actually engaged, but its advance had gained time and opportunity for the artillery to move further forward in one line from the spur of the wood to Flavigny.

  104. The XXIIIrd Corps was to move straight upon the town, the XXIInd to cross the Somme lower down, and take up a position south of St. Quentin.

  105. An Austrian battery seemed to have selected them to aim at, and compelled him to move away with a smaller following.

  106. Then he stood apart and gazed from Shagpat to the city that now began to move with the morning; elephants and coursers saddled by the gates of the King's palace were visible, and camels blocking the narrow streets, and the markets bustling.

  107. He makes a point of killing and otherwise persecuting all those who first try to get him to move on; and when he has moved a step farther, foolishly confers post-mortem deification on his victims.

  108. But I hold that it is better to move full-orbed, if you can.

  109. Hagar shivered and began to move toward the warmer side; then halted, turned, and came back to the beech.

  110. The senses move more slowly than the event.

  111. He exactly repeats the process with all who want him to move a step yet farther.

  112. And as they're all for that kind of housing, they're preparing to move in--just a little preliminary ousting of a few people with more brains and money and in they go!

  113. Zeke moved up the throttle and they began to move faster.

  114. She watched his broad, stolid back move slowly across the room, saw him pause for a moment at the door and then plunge resolutely through it, and then she was alone.

  115. And as she made no move and apparently did not hear him, "Call on me if I can serve you.

  116. It makes one feel it would be so easy to do things for them, move them about at one's will--from here.


  117. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "move" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accomplishment; achievement; act; action; activate; activity; actuate; actuation; admonish; advance; adventure; affect; agitate; amaze; anchor; animate; annoy; answer; approach; arouse; art; artifice; ascend; assay; attempt; awake; awaken; back; bear; behave; bend; bias; bid; billet; bivouac; blind; blink; blow; bowl; breathe; bring; broach; budge; bunt; burrow; butt; camp; carry; cart; caution; change; charge; chicanery; circle; climb; colonize; color; come; commit; commute; compel; conspiracy; contrivance; contrive; convert; coup; course; crack; craft; dealings; deceit; deed; descend; design; determine; device; dislodge; displace; dispose; disturb; dive; dodge; doing; doings; domesticate; drive; dump; dynamics; ebb; edge; effort; electrify; emigrate; encourage; endeavor; energize; enjoin; enrage; ensconce; enterprise; essay; evacuate; excite; exhort; exist; exit; expedient; experiment; exploit; expostulate; fan; fare; feat; feint; fetch; fire; fling; flit; flow; foment; force; forward; frenzy; function; galvanize; gambit; game; gang; gest; gesture; get; gimmick; give; goad; going; grieve; gyrate; hand; handiwork; hasten; haul; head; heat; heave; hie; hive; impassion; impel; impress; improvisation; incense; incite; incline; induce; inflame; influence; infuriate; inhabit; inspire; interest; intrigue; introduce; job; jump; kindle; kinetics; knavery; launch; lead; lick; live; locate; machination; madden; make; makeshift; maneuver; manhandle; manoeuvre; march; market; means; measure; melt; merchandise; migrate; mobilization; mobilize; moor; moot; motion; motivate; motivation; mount; move; movement; moving; nest; nudge; offer; operate; operation; park; pass; passage; pedal; penetrate; people; perch; performance; persuade; pierce; pique; pitch; play; plot; ploy; plunge; pole; populate; pose; postulate; power; practice; preach; predispose; prefer; press; prime; procedure; proceed; proceeding; prod; production; progress; promote; prompt; propel; propose; proposition; propound; provoke; push; quarter; quicken; racket; range; reach; recommend; regress; relocate; remonstrate; removal; remove; reside; resort; resource; restlessness; retail; rise; roll; roost; rotate; rouse; row; run; running; ruse; sacrifice; sadden; scheme; second; sell; send; serve; settle; shift; ship; shot; shove; shunt; side; sink; sleight; slide; smart; soar; soften; solution; spark; speed; spin; squat; stab; stall; stand; start; stay; stem; step; stimulate; sting; stir; stirring; stratagem; strategy; stream; strike; stroke; stunt; submit; subside; subsist; subterfuge; suggest; sway; sweep; tactic; tempt; thing; thrill; thrust; tinge; tone; touch; trail; transaction; transfer; translate; transplant; transport; travel; treadle; trial; trick; trickery; troll; trump; trundle; try; turn; undercut; undersell; undertaking; unload; unrest; uproot; urge; velocity; verge; wake; wane; warm; warn; wayfare; whack; whirl; wholesale; wile; work; works


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    move about; move against; move away; move forward; move from; move quickly; move rapidly; move slowly; move the; move them; move upon; moved away; moved back; moved forward; moved from; moved over; moved tones