Sample Sentences for
momentous
(editor-reviewed)

Show 3 more sentences
  • •
    I should probably wait for Margot to come home before I make such a momentous decision.  (source)
    momentous = important
  • •
    Isolated on their chilly mountain, the POWs had been told nothing of the momentous events of recent days.  (source)
  • •
    One might have assumed that all her thoughts were on the momentous occasion at hand, which was certainly what Prince Leopold believed.  (source)
    momentous = of very great significance
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more with 4 word variations
  • •
    The Pleiades were all abuzz over the advent of their visiting star, Miss Frances Homer, the celebrated monologuist, who, at Eaton Auditorium, again presented her Women of Destiny series, in which she portrays women of history and the influence they brought to bear upon the lives of such momentous world figures as Napoleon, Ferdinand of Spain, Horatio Nelson and Shakespeare.  (source)
    momentous = important
  • •
    He'd mentioned going to college the summer prior, casually, with no inkling of the momentousness of his words.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • •
    In fact the procedure is entirely unmomentous, and when he looks at his watch he sees that from the time he'd entered the courtroom it had taken all of ten minutes.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unmomentous means not and reverses the meaning of momentous. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • •
    [Momentously] Still, I have never shut my eyes to the fact that there is a certain amount of tosh about the Salvation Army†  (source)
  • •
    The decision was being hailed as momentous, even though murders take place every day.†  (source)
  • •
    Her body stiffened against his, and he felt a strange emotion within her: a sense of impending momentousness.†  (source)
  • •
    [momentously] Henry Straker: the moment of your life has arrived†  (source)
  • •
    But though his whole life was now become one watch on deck; and though the Parsee's mystic watch was without intermission as his own; yet these two never seemed to speak—one man to the other—unless at long intervals some passing unmomentous matter made it necessary.†  (source)
  • •
    No. For most of us, the late 1920s were not characterized by a series of momentous events.†  (source)
  • •
    He took the suitcase from the closet, feeling numb suddenly with the momentousness of these events, long expected but a surprise all the same.†  (source)
▲ show less (of above)