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    Use "motion" in a sentence

    motion example sentences

    motion


    motioned


    motioning


    motions


    1. There was motion for a few minutes before she tottered groggily out


    2. Then the muscles have to have enough strength and there has to be enough range of motion to generate the required action, whether it’s stepping or grasping


    3. He locks eyes with me as the right hand makes a fist, pumping a stabbing motion into an imaginary chest


    4. the waiters, and made the universal scribble motion that means the bill and fruit


    5. They fell in slow motion


    6. tornadic force of their motion across the floor


    7. A soldier, obviously the leader, chatters angrily in Arabic, points his weapon at Ricci, Russ, John and Khalid, indicates with a downward motion that they should get down on their stomachs on the highway


    8. He gives a wink, makes a chopping motion against his neck with the side of his hand


    9. This meeting's published agenda was to review strategy leading up to the encounter with the asteroid they had set in motion on their previous pass thru the brown dwarf's gravity well


    10. The echoes and the reflections of motion off city streets are different from the broad, swallowing expanse of the country

    11. Menachem made a cutting motion across his throat with his thumb


    12. “You are here at last, Sandra Nox!” announced Lady Chimaera in a sonorous voice, her long blond hair slightly waving at the graceful motion of her arms


    13. Then, there was no sound, no motion; for a few moments I experienced a paradox emptiness


    14. She’d stayed seated until it stopped, uncertain and unfamiliar with the motion … yes, the bus had stopped and she’d risen, turned to pick up her bag … walked quickly down the gangway to the door … there’d been footsteps behind her … heavy ones – the men


    15. Our view of eternity and what comes after our life actually affects and puts in motion how we will live and what will govern our lives now in the present


    16. It was all in such slow motion


    17. He falls in slow motion, watching the days


    18. a motion forward in the dark, a level playing field,


    19. Alan was almost sleeping himself, but Luray was interesting and he wanted to stay awake and talk with her, but he was in such slow motion that he really didn't come up with anything to say right away


    20. We, the universal, are a motion of death

    21. She was almost out from under these overhanging branches when she began to see the flashes of motion above


    22. She could see motion in the shadows up above


    23. I can just about hear the sound of their voices above the gentle sloshing of the sea against the boards forming the walls of my cabin, and to those soothing, reassuring sounds, I drift off to sleep quickly, rocked by the motion of The Aquarian


    24. He crouched to spring out, but the wave was much too big for that little motion


    25. " That fact made the filament rather indistinct since it was in motion


    26. He waits until they are nearly parallel with him then stands and raises both hands, making a throwing motion


    27. The back and shoulders are also strengthened by the slow motion lifting and lowering of the head and shoulders


    28. He had augmented his mind enough to follow the math that proved that motion was not possible without energy input, a large energy input


    29. He needed an axis of motion to follow Narrulla and another to follow the seasons


    30. He drew the range of motion he could get in the bundle

    31. These movements include the Shoulderstand, the Leg-raising Pose (Udhitta Padasana), Viparita-Karani, and the Plough Posture, and we will call this series of seven movements YOGA IN SLOW MOTION


    32. Yoga in Slow Motion is recommended for toning up the system after childbirth after a suitable rest period has elapsed following confinement


    33. By the time the second hit really took hold all she was thinking about was the pleasure of bodies and the beauty of the sunlight sparkling off the ripples their motion was making


    34. Realizing what had taken place he roared loudly and for a moment everything seemed to be in slow motion


    35. I’ve come to a full stop in the middle of the pavement but he takes my elbow and, jolting me back into motion, steers me towards the park that backs onto our office block


    36. "Anything with a large enough relative motion is likely to be a halo object," Heymon said


    37. While in motion, all the dark matter, from snowflakes to brown dwarfs, are the most interesting thing to be seen, the stars remain fixed thru the whole voyage, except the extra one directly ahead or behind, Sol


    38. " She made the motion of trying to put a very big one in her mouth


    39. And with that simple tender motion, she almost broke my heart


    40. The day came when the Scathers decided the herd was once again too large, and set plans in motion to purge half the Ogatu population

    41. Superfluid flow was about the only mechanical motion possible in this realm


    42. imagine that Ali sees the ball in slow motion A normal player will use the second


    43. She leaped again and took two heads in one fluid motion


    44. cascades of black, liquid motion


    45. up the glass into motion – in


    46. Alexei set his famous ears and awareness in motion


    47. to happen in slow motion, but try as he might Billy couldn’t reach


    48. He had suddenly regained his full range of motion


    49. she said, her hand in take-off motion above her head


    50. She said nothing about the movement in his pants, but the motion of her hips told him she knew and approved of it














































    1. ” He motioned to the couch in the outer room


    2. " Travis motioned around the room to the photos and the artwork


    3. I motioned for Will to stay where he was but I needn't have bothered


    4. The young man went a little blank and then motioned for him to go through


    5. He motioned me to sit back down on the camp bed


    6. He motioned us forward with his rifle


    7. He motioned with the coffee pot asking if she wanted some, she shook her head no


    8. She motioned him to silence and listened intently


    9. Without a sound she motioned him to stay still


    10. She motioned to the children to leave the egg chamber

    11. With his left hand he motioned to Glayet to pay attention


    12. Altera rose quickly, Naria raised her hand and motioned to her that it was okay


    13. Kai went to door and motioned for the warrior to enter


    14. The woman said something to her with great sympathy, and then motioned her men to take Ava in the back


    15. They started to get up but the older woman motioned them to be at ease


    16. She motioned to the other one and Altera sat beside her


    17. They wanted to look at it more closely, and motioned for her to take it off


    18. Delighted with her guest's reactions, Belle said, “In here is the bedroom,” and motioned to one of two brightly lacquered doors on the wall to their left


    19. The entity motioned with his hand, Grinly's pallid


    20. He motioned for Mr

    21. “And do you think those kids,” he motioned up the boardwalk from where they sat, “have ever heard the word, No?” A tall lady in an immaculate skirt and waistcoat was followed haltingly by a boy and a girl


    22. Johnny motioned for the two and they both walked back, watching Roman as they


    23. motioned my head toward the laundry room, and she followed me there


    24. down off the porch and motioned with his head for me to follow him up the


    25. I looked at Sally and motioned my hand flat to the ground, hoping she


    26. She then motioned the others to back up and hold their positions


    27. Roman motioned to the guy standing behind the cash register


    28. Freddy motioned toward the back of the room


    29. “Ease it forward,” Knume called and Nalu motioned to the kedas


    30. Deria motioned me to be quiet

    31. He motioned Kallo to sit down


    32. Coach Grouse motioned for Coach Demera who was watching Sam


    33. “Way beyond that,” he motioned with his hands, “You’re more potent than the yaag


    34. She led him back down the stairs into the dining hall, where she motioned


    35. He motioned Ming to step outside with him


    36. the shoulder and motioned for her to join me at the


    37. He spoke now with a feverish energy, the long hands twitching and jerking as he motioned me away


    38. The man motioned me to a chair, and turned to sit down


    39. Somber, the mage motioned to the table


    40. Brice paused as Alec motioned for the bartender to send over another round

    41. Nidon motioned for him to shut the door


    42. contemplatively on the edge of his bed and motioned for


    43. A sleeve of gold motioned toward Emily


    44. and motioned for them to follow him


    45. ” And with that I motioned to Shreya to keep quiet as


    46. I motioned to the object between us


    47. ” Diamante said softly, as she motioned for the rest of the coven to take their places around the circle


    48. The king nodded and then motioned with his hand


    49. He motioned to the chief butler, who promptly pulled a black chord to signal the kitchen that their guests were ready


    50. Garuda motioned to them to hold onto the key, ‘You can follow me now,’ she said














































    1. Motioning her troops to stay, Sonia followed at a discreet distance from high above


    2. “You didn’t hear it from me,” Kulai said, just as a formality, while turning around and motioning her to the better guest cushion, “but he left a contaminated room open, and in a separate case, contaminated all four of the biological samples he ever took in his career


    3. “You didn’t hear it from me,” Kulai said, turning around and motioning her to a guest chair


    4. He nudged Dobber, motioning to the Outlands


    5. "That's when I saw him," Tetloan said, motioning to Solo Ki


    6. Rafe departed, motioning for Brice to follow


    7. “You don’t say,” smirked Longleaf, motioning to Bosco not to reveal that it was the ship he served


    8. He stood up, picked up the money and started to walk to the door, motioning for me to


    9. ‘The doctor will be with you shortly,’ she said motioning for me to sit in the chair next to the bed and then she left me alone with him


    10. He picked up the chair and pushed it towards her, motioning with his gun that she should sit down

    11. Amonas was motioning with his head for Hilderich to drink, urging him to just have a taste, while Hilderich slowly brought the fruit to his lips, constantly eying Amonas warily


    12. Langford was motioning with his hands and calling for quiet, but before he could speak, another American joined the group, and Colling concluded that he must be the freighter’s captain


    13. Colling was about to follow his suitcase into the elevator, when Quarles pulled at his arm, motioning with his head towards the hotel dining room


    14. Maria, bring tea for our guest, and we will talk of this,” said Kwonowski, motioning Colling into the back of the store


    15. The man nodded and extended his hand in what seemed a genuine gesture, motioning the boys to lower their guns as well


    16. “Please, have a seat,” he said with disarming mellowness, motioning Ethan to pull up an empty folding chair


    17. When he was done taunting me, Fandango began looking at me with this confident look, while motioning: “one minute” with his index finger and mouthing the words, “You’ll see” as he pointed to his eye and winked with a wry smile


    18. I shudder, and all I can see is the guard’s hand, motioning me forward


    19. she was motioning to


    20. He shifted uncomfortably before motioning to one of the officer’s, who went outside with him

    21. tobacco, he arrogantly clicked his fingers, motioning for the


    22. ” the guard instructed, motioning


    23. bowed to them and pushed the crest apart, motioning with his


    24. “Come quickly,” she said, motioning for them to follow her


    25. The general alarm was raised and several guards were running in the direction of the security barrier to try and stop them, meanwhile the original jobsworth was standing in the road motioning for them to stop


    26. “This is Adrian,” she said, motioning to the guy whose sturdy


    27. “Yeah, headache” I said motioning towards the aspirin on the nightstand “Don’t you have work today?” I asked


    28. "Pull her over into this room for observation," said the intern, motioning with his left hand


    29. “Remember the energy source Frank was after?” I asked and she nodded “Well this is it” I said motioning towards my necklace


    30. “We have work to do,” she said, motioning them out

    31. Nodding she stepped aside motioning for him to come in


    32. Motioning for him to stand Amadis extended His hand to the other


    33. “Blake, David this is my fiancée Anna,” he said motioning for her to come closer, “Anna, these two clunk heads are Blake and David, their close friends of mine


    34. There, someone was excitedly motioning in his direction with a big red baton to come all the way to the last turnoff


    35. Moshe, silently motioning for everyone to drop to earth, slipped off himself, pulling his mount to ground with him, cutting short the sound of any protest with his arm and hands wrapped around the horse’s muzzle


    36. They turned to see pilots nudging each other and motioning with their heads toward the main door of the club


    37. There, someone was excitedly motioning in his direction with a big red


    38. It is good to drink,” Walid said to her, motioning with his hands


    39. Saeed said, motioning to her


    40. ‘Quickly friends, this way,’ he hissed, motioning them towards the open portal, his last word stuck in his throat as he stared at the Soul Beast’s back

    41. "I should have known," the doctor shook his head and sat down, motioning Calvin toward the other chair which he declined


    42. "You were found in the side yard in your current condition," said Detective Corley, motioning to the casts and splints


    43. motioning for the waiter to bring the tab


    44. motioning toward the woman's drink


    45. „Hang on a bit," I said, motioning Jon to sit


    46. motioning with his hands, sweeping them apart in front of his chest


    47. Motioning Robert to stand in front of his elaborately panelled desk, the headmaster sat, placed his elbows on the pristine blotter, made a steeple with his fingers and peered at Robert over gold-rimmed half-glasses


    48. ” The postman poked his head outside, motioning to someone


    49. He greeted Cindy as he stepped out of the elevator and went over to her desk in response to her motioning


    50. Andrew nudged his head in one direction, motioning for David to turn around and look











































    1. Vinnie was sliding the glove around the door in small circular motions, every now and then he would tap one of the fingers of the glove against the door in alternating rhythms


    2. Zitteraal motions to a nearby building


    3. He motions toward Enoch, who is happily hammering away


    4. He motions toward Enoch


    5. He motions to Rosita, who goes over to a rusty yellow


    6. Jurgen motions for them to sit


    7. (motions to the next


    8. He motions to one of the soldiers, who comes over, puts Khalid in a head lock


    9. One motions for him to follow


    10. She spots me first and motions for Apollo

    11. He had the most recent plates with him, a whole series of observations of the null point asteroids and their unexplained motions of the past year


    12. They were the largest concentration of metals that had ever been observed, and had been closely studied because of that, but it was their motions of the previous year that caused them to send for him


    13. "Darryl is plotting the motions of every snowball we pass, they are all in two families, those orbiting in the galactic plane and those of the halo


    14. He hands me the bag and I go through the motions of opening it


    15. "Most of the bodies with large relative motions are not undergoing course corrections," Thom said


    16. Emboldened by this, the young warrior attacked and slew the second bug quickly with wide stabbing motions


    17. As a warrior trained in the proper use of the sword he truly admired her graceful motions; her even thrusts of the mysterious sword she carried with her


    18. impressive by the hydraulic motions of his many chins


    19. I don’t say he concentrated but at least he was there and we went through the motions


    20. motions with his hand

    21. He motions me to one of the chairs in the room


    22. He was probably mad because her lawyer had filed enough motions to keep his tied up in court for a few days so she could come down here


    23. Signaling two of her squadron with hand motions, she ordered them to rise up another twenty feet and recheck for traps


    24. The old woman made motions that this cubicle was hers


    25. The gagging motions in the kitchen


    26. She competes against your body’s signals, goes through the sexual motions, but gets no results and gets frustrated to no end


    27. As he does this he glances at Ken and motions to him to go and fetch the little toe rag


    28. Sensibly, she swallowed her regret and went through the usual motions – showering, dressing, talking to Ozzie as normal


    29. Her gaze paused as she watched him going through the motions of eating his breakfast


    30. George borrowed a block from each of them and demonstrated the posture and motions he expected them to use

    31. some kind of aircraft, but their speed and strange motions were all


    32. Other than that one encounter, she only went thru the motions of life on Argon’s Racer


    33. He watches as Alex motions down the line of the hedge towards the pillars


    34. He walked on with them in this manner for a while longer then, when he was certain they were comfortable with the motions, he said, “Switch hands


    35. ‘What is it, Anna?’ She motions to the spare chair by her desk and moves round to shut the door behind me as I sit down


    36. Kaha was in front of him, he could not help responding to her, and she did not stop responding to his response in her motions with the music


    37. going through the motions, pissed off because all hope seemed to be lost


    38. The vine was everywhere and the bloom was already rampant, the fragrance making the journey a dizzying stroll thru a quasi-real world of colors and motions


    39. These androids were merely I/O devices with the ability to capture a human body's sensory input channels, and produce a human body's output motions when controlled by a personality that was actually located on some host distributed on the commnet


    40. The repetition of his motions relaxing

    41. He did what he was expected to do, with no emotional investment on his part, as if he was merely going through the motions of life, but not actually living -- like an elven golem or a steel automaton of the old science


    42. Heavens, that I might know their motions and


    43. Herold began to experience automatic unconsciously motivated Motor actions in her limbs, gyrating in circular motions:


    44. Theoton waved her off, his motions large and angry now, his face turned very hard


    45. Suddenly, all along the wall translucent dragons or skeletons (I honestly can't remember which) were moving with serpentine like motions


    46. Mark motions to the BARTENDER for another drink


    47. He expertly loads a 9 mm then motions for her to step in front of him and take the weapon


    48. She motions toward the monitor as she sits back


    49. motions the boy to peer through and asks, “What do you


    50. You are just going through the motions














































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    Synonyms for "motion"

    motion move movement motility gesture question apparent motion apparent movement gesticulate sign beckon wave call prompt stir direction stirring course suggestion proposition consideration plan

    "motion" definitions

    the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals


    a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something


    a change of position that does not entail a change of location


    a state of change


    a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote


    the act of changing location from one place to another


    an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object


    show, express or direct through movement