Read full poem →The tongue moved gently first, and speech was low,
Till wrangling Science taught it noise and show,
Dictionary Entry
To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.
In a Sentence
“A ship moves rapidly.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. movedaway moved
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Poetry examples for “moved”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Britons, attend: be worth like this approved,
And show you have the virtue to be moved.
With honest scorn the first famed Cato view'd
Read full poem →Britons, attend: be worth like this approved,
And show you have the virtue to be moved.
With honest scorn the first famed Cato view'd
Read full poem →Like roses that in deserts bloom and die.
What moved my mind with youthful lords to roam?
Oh, had I stay'd, and said my prayers at home!
Read full poem →England should effect with her navy. It was essentially a
defensive force, and could be moved rapidly from point to
point, but it should be equal to all that was expected from
Read full poem →Of revel ; and the last, my other heart,
And almost my half-self, for still we moved 55
Together, twinn’d as horse’s ear and eye.
Read full poem →With happy faces and with holiday.
There moved the multitude, a thousand heads :
Read full poem →We know him now: all narrow jealousies
Are silent; and we see him as he moved,
How modest, kindly, all-accomplish’d, wise,
Read full poem →Comfort and cool me as dew in the dawn of a moon like a dream;
And my heart yearns baffled and blind, moved vainly toward thee, and
moving
Read full poem →Her adorable head that arose;
As the sound of a God that is moved,
Her voice went forth upon Rome.