Etymology
Origin of momently
Example Sentences
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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
Paddling ashore with all speed, they momently expected the great bird to recover himself at their approach and flop heavily away, as herons are wont to do when one seeks to observe them too closely.
From The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
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 E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith
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