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momently

[moh-muhnt-lee] / ˈmoʊ mənt li /


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Seizure of Axis ships in South American ports was expected momently.

From Time Magazine Archive

The character of Fricka seemed to become momently less goddesslike.

From Time Magazine Archive

I watched her for nearly half-an-hour: during all that time she never turned a page, and her face grew momently darker, more dissatisfied, and more sourly expressive of disappointment.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

He looked like an animated bag of flour, Chester said, awkwardly balanced, jolting painfully, and seeming momently ready to tumble off.

From Father Brighthopes An Old Clergyman's Vacation by Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend)

The yellow star that was the sun detached itself from the firmament and leaped toward them, swelling visibly, momently, into a blinding monster of incandescence.

From Triplanetary by Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer)




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