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Sentences for motion. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use motion in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for motion.

• Poetry of Motion. (8)
• No motion; no breath! (8)
• He was conscious of motion. (1)
• Shelton made a motion of alarm. (8)
• Pippin made a motion of the head. (8)
• The window curtains seemed in motion. (4)
• He nodded, and struck out a hand in wavy motion. (10)
• His friends quitted him at a motion of the elbows. (10)
• Upon her motion, the other ladies looked at Barlow. (9)
• Silent rapid motion in the frosty air was some relief. (8)
• A noise of something swiftly in motion made them alert. (10)
• The idea of the recent propinquity set hatred in motion. (10)
• Miltoun made a motion of his head, signifying that he did. (8)
• His heart and all his fancies were in motion at the sound. (10)
• Three or four who lay without motion appeared to have no heads. (1)
• He hurried along the lines of carriages, all getting into motion. (10)
• He hurried along the lines of carriages, all getting into motion. (22)
• She herself was metal, pointing all to her one aim when in motion. (10)
• For the last quarter of an hour, Algernon had not felt a motion of it. (22)
• She sang one bewitching barcarole that set the house in rocking motion. (10)
• He could hardly believe such delicate limbs and joints capable of motion. (12)
• He did obscure it, and he might annoy, he was unable to set it in motion. (10)
• He returned; he entered the carriage, and the wheels were soon in motion. (10)
• A visible tremor ran along the lines of men; all were startled into motion. (1)
• Presently a sort of forlorn negative was indicated by the motion of her head. (10)
• Far asunder as the poles were those two sensations, evoked by this same motion. (8)
• The fire is in them whereof we are born; The music of their motion may be ours. (10)
• Everybody was shortly in motion for tea, and they must squeeze out like the rest. (4)
• She knew how much stronger than ordinary men the woman who can put them in motion. (10)
• A smile went up the plump cheeks: forthwith the bud of a mouth was in rapid motion. (10)
• The motion is so slow that the spectators hardly realize that the man has revolved. (21)
• But the hill was over and the startled horses were cantering with a free, smooth motion. (8)
• Druse neither turned his head nor looked at him, but lay without motion or sign of recognition. (1)
• Laura drove with Beppo to see whether the army was in motion, for they were distracted by rumours. (10)
• There was the inventor of a perpetual motion, who lectured upon it and explained it from a diagram. (9)
• Lady Malloring raised one hand; the motion, quite involuntary, ended at the tiny cross on her breast. (8)
• The unconscious physical influence of mere motion, of going somewhere, soothed his irritated nerves. (13)
• What father teaches them that a human act once set in motion flows on for ever to the great account? (22)
• The swift motion and titillation by the perpetual close shaving of other vehicles were sedative to him. (8)
• He ran down to breakfast, hopeing he might hear of that clock stopped, and that sickening motion with it. (10)
• Speed is on the downs, glorious motion, odorous air of sea and herb, exquisite as in the isles of Greece. (10)
• The desire for it was in him; his mother had merely tolled a warning bell that he had put in motion before. (10)
• He was the first to promulgate the rule that contrary motion is always to be preferred to similar or oblique. (3)
• He could see her expanding like a flower, in all this light, and motion, and intoxicating admiration round her. (8)
• The long irregular jolt of the ordinary progress was reduced to an incessant shudder and a quick lateral motion. (9)
• His hat had been blown or shot from his head, and his long, blond hair rose and fell with the motion of his horse. (1)
• Then there came a shock, and the shell was struck with light, and they were sensible of stillness without motion. (10)
• But you find not anozer in fifty years, I say; and here you stop, and forty hours pass by, and not a sing in motion. (10)
• Swiftness of motion so strikes the blood on the brain that our thoughts are lightnings, the heart is master of them. (10)
• History, like the air we breathe, must be in motion to keep us uncorrupt: otherwise its ancient homes are infectious. (10)
• The intense, unwonted heat of the April days had broken the crust of soil and set the sap of life in motion once more. (13)
• The excruciated patient was having his wet bandages folded across his bruises, and could not bear a motion of the mind. (10)
• The old Austrian Field-Marshal had eluded him at Mantua on that very night when Vittoria had seen his troops in motion. (10)
• The necessity for motion, however, set him on his feet, and off he went, still Westward, out of the Park, and into streets. (22)
• Now would he close an eye, or move two fingers, but of other motion made he none, yet the people gazed at him with eagerness. (10)
• The faithful creature, who bitterly regretted her position now that the motion had begun, looked up with a darkened eye at Mr. (8)
• And in her eagerness to restrain him she unconsciously laid her gentle hand upon his arm, and took the force of motion out of him. (10)
• The peculiar dry mossy smell of an oak-tree was disturbed into the air by the least motion of their feet or hands against the bark. (8)
• Probably the absence of natural motion inspires the prophecy that we must ultimately come down: our unused legs wax morbidly restless. (10)
• Many times Edward rose to go; and Sir William signalled with his finger that he should stay: an impassive motion, not succeeded by speech. (10)
• Many times Edward rose to go; and Sir William signalled with his finger that he should stay: an impassive motion, not succeeded by speech. (22)
• Then, with a warning motion towards the door, she wrenches herself free, and stops beside the picture, trying desperately to appear demure. (8)
• There were times when she watched her own power of motion curiously: curiously stretched out her hands, and touched things, and moved them. (10)
• There were times when she watched her own power of motion curiously: curiously stretched out her hands, and touched things, and moved them. (22)
• She flew about her room, feeling that if she once stood still it would all crystallise in hard painful thought, which motion alone kept away. (8)
• The war-machine was in motion from end to end: the field of flowers was a streaming flood; regiment by regiment, the crash of bands went by. (10)
• Brayder returned the nod, and those who promenaded the district soon beheld his body in elegant motion to the stepping of his well-earned horse. (10)
• She now raised her head with a slow, gradual motion, like that of a wax-work, showing a white young face, tearless,-dreadfully drawn at the lips. (10)
• They entered the boat silently among its drapery of lotuses, and the Veiled Figure ferried them over the stream that rippled not with their motion. (10)
• Bobbing and bounding upon the spring cushions, silent, swaying to each motion of their chariot, old Jolyon watched them drive away under the sunlight. (8)
• In height and breadth she most nearly resembled a sugar-hogshead, whose rolling, pitching motion, when trundled along on edge, she emulated in her gait. (6)
• Toward the rear these characteristics are less and less conspicuous, and finally, in point of space, are lost altogether in confusion, motion and noise. (1)

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