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noun as in brief time period

Strong matches

breathing, crack, instant, jiffy, sec, second, shake, tick, trice, twinkle, twinkling, while, wink

Strong matches

advantage, avail, concern, consequence, gravity, import, magnitude, momentousness, pith, profit, seriousness, significance, signification, substance, value, weight, weightiness, worth

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Example Sentences

You’ve got to play in the moment, and we’re really good at that.

There have been some moments where I was able to take a step back and look at all that’s happened.

From José Feliciano at the 1968 World Series to Whitney Houston at the Super Bowl in 1991, from moments both roiling and patriotic, there is a tradition here, and stripping sports of that feels too of the moment, too quick.

I’d like to thank my boys out here for doing everything right and getting us to this moment.

Neither at the moment, though my three-year plan involves adopting a cat!

In that country at that moment, the Catholics have practically disappeared.

But Krauss said that from the moment he and the other scientists arrived on the island, they never saw anything untoward.

The massacre of cartoonists at the French magazine Charlie Hebdo is a crystallizing moment.

At the moment, the only chance I get is when I go do Late Night with Seth Meyers.

And then I met him before I started doing the impression of him when he was a guest on SNL for a moment.

He was too drowsy to hold the thought more than a moment in his mind, much less to reflect upon it.

They are very urgent questions; our sons and daughters will have to begin to deal with them from the moment they leave college.

Her eyes, for a moment, fixed themselves with a horrid conviction of a wide and nameless treachery.

The thought seemed to produce the dreaded object, for next moment a large hummock appeared right ahead.

At this moment an extraordinary commotion began among the watches.