How to use "moved" in a sentence

Stupid, Aron, stupid! When you first stood on the rock, it moved

I didn't tell anyone where I was going, I didn't go with Kristi and Megan to the west canyon, and I didn't get off the boulder when it moved.

The Abraham Lincoln moved away from us

We moved down below the country of Egypt

The Nautilus moved up over the mountain, and I saw that the light came from an old underwater volcano

I looked out of the window, and there was a 25-foot giant squid! It moved close to the Nautilus and it hit the window with its long tentacles

Outside, six or seven small squid moved along the top of the Nautilus, throwing all their tentacles at the ship and its men

The Mouse moved quickly away from her.

When she could hear the Rabbit outside the window, she moved her arm up and down

Alice moved her arm again

The Queen smiled and moved away

Nobody moved.

After that, I moved my bed to another room.

Then we watched while our men moved off the hill and came down into the valley.

'How long have we been friends, Forrest? Thirty years? Sometimes it doesn't seem true.' She moved nearer, and gave me a kiss

Born in Limerick, Ireland, she moved to Wales with her family when she was very young

If Hutchinson was the Ripper, why did he stop killing? We know that by 1891 he had moved away from Whitechapel

He moved carefully towards the window and looked out

He then put his shoes into the bag and, grasping the iron bar in his right hand, he moved quietly towards the door of the bishop's bedroom

He suddenly turned away and moved quickly to the cupboard

The bishop, meanwhile, had moved towards the group of men and was smiling at Jean Valjean.

He moved his feet nervously, uncertain of what to say at first

'He hasn't come for you.' Then, gently rising from his chair, he moved towards Javert

There was a full moon, and this pleased Valjean as he moved quickly along the narrow streets

On the night after the Battle of Waterloo, in June 1815, a robber moved quietly around the battlefield, stealing money and jewellery from the bodies of dead soldiers

He moved away from the girl's touch and said, 'I think, Mademoiselle, that I have something belonging to you.' He handed her the parcel of letters.

Gillenormand moved quickly towards him, pulled him back into the room and pushed him into an armchair.

Valjean moved closer to the mirror and read the lines again, not wanting to believe them

More soldiers moved into position at the end of the street, behind the cannon, and started to build a low wall with pieces of broken stone

When a second cannon was moved into position next to the first, they knew that the end was near.

As the two friends moved back towards the door, fighting off the soldiers, a bullet hit Marius in the shoulder

Valjean leapt forward and, using all his strength, he moved the stones and wood, opened the grille, lifted Marius on to his shoulders and climbed down into the darkness.

He moved from one passage into another, slipping several times on the wet floor

Finally, the group of men moved off along another passage, and Valjean was left in total darkness once again.

They watched as the fish moved slowly between the waving ocean plants, silent and peaceful in their watery world.

Then the biggest dolphin moved toward Sala and pushed her with its nose

Then the pod moved, and Sala was standing again

Give that to your grandmother." For a second, the woman moved a little closer

They moved on

Cham moved stiffly forward, took the screen from his dad, and lifted his hand

The line moved forward slowly; then a technician called Odem led them through the thick glass doors, past the test laboratory, and into a waiting room

"Really? Tell me." Cham moved a little closer

Jasper had moved towards the drawing-room, wagging his tail.

Maxim lit a cigarette and moved away from me

Furniture was moved as the great hall was prepared for dancing

Why was Maxim looking like that? He moved towards the stairs.

Still nobody moved.

Then the figure moved and I saw that it was Mrs Danvers.

Mrs Danvers moved away from me.

Mrs Danvers moved back from the window.

Ben shook his head and moved back against the wall

From that, she moved up through a series of similar positions in larger lounges, then in small showrooms that seated four or five hundred in second-rate hotels with limited show budgets

Vivienne looked both ways, then moved to the right, toward the closed door at the end of the hall

Nothing moved.

The sets and props had been moved from the main floor of the stage, and eight folding tables had been set up

Each time that Tina moved on to talk to someone else, she regretted leaving Elliot, and each time that she found him again, she stayed with him longer than she had before

Shaking his head, obviously amused, Michael moved around the clearing and into the crowd again.

He moved toward her.

Finally I took a few mementos, a dozen pieces by which I'll always remember her, and I moved out, sold the house, bought this one, and started decorating all over again."

His hands moved over her, testing the firmness and resilience of her, and she touched him too, gently squeezing his shoulders, his arms, the hard muscles of his back

Sheets, puffs, and spinning funnels of vaguely phosphorescent dust moved like specters through the night.

The other dealers streamed by, and when Evans finally turned away from the waitress, he was the last in the procession as it moved toward the blackjack pits.

While he waited for Alexander to finish with the night manager at the Flagstaff airport, Kennebeck moved from one model ship to another

Zachariah moved to another bank of computer screens, where Danny Evans's heartbeat, blood pressure, body temperature, and brainwave activity were constantly displayed

Tina moved with him.

They slipped around the corner of the building and moved stealthily toward the front.

As Tina's hand moved slowly over the paper, the corners of the map began to curl and uncurl again.

He moved his hands over it slowly, as if he were caressing a woman

He didn't want to tie the wounded man's hands, so they carefully moved him to a supply closet and locked him in there.

In spite of its tremendous weight, it moved more smoothly and easily than an average door in an average house

Tina moved to Elliot's side

As the three of them moved to the airtight steel door that led into the room beyond the window, Elliot said, "Why is he in an isolation chamber? Is he ill?"

"If I understand you, the Chinese could use Wuhan-400 to wipe out a city or a country, and then there wouldn't be any need for them to conduct a tricky and expensive decontamination before they moved in and took over the conquered territory."

Alexander peered anxiously through the sheeting snow into which the chopper moved like a blind man running full-steam into endless darkness

They moved Zachariah into the isolation chamber and took the gag out of his mouth

But he liked me, and when I was twelve, I moved to Uncle Elias's house

'After my uncle's death, my father moved into the house

After a few days in prison, Helene had been moved to a nearby asylum for the criminally insane

He moved away quickly and fell over one of the chairs

I want to see if there are footprints.' He moved towards the open window.

'Exactly, Madam.' The Inspector moved his chair a little nearer

Griselda had moved away

If only that note had said something different.' She moved towards the window and on her way put her hand into the pot of a rather tired houseplant

Then something like a little grey snake, about the thickness of a walking-stick, came out of the middle and moved through the air towards me - and then another.

As it moved up and caught the light, it shone like wet leather

One tentacle held onto the cylinder; another moved in the air.

Black figures in twos and threes moved forwards, stopped, watched, and moved again, getting closer and closer to the pit.

As the group moved forwards, a number of other people started to follow them.

Suddenly, there was a flash of light and bright greenish smoke came out of the pit in three separate clouds, which moved up, one after the other, into the still air.

He turned, stared, shouted something about 'crawling out in a thing like a dish cover', and moved on to the gate of the next house

Overhead the clouds were passing fast, mixed here and there with clouds of black and red smoke, although no wind moved the bushes around me

Staying in the wood, I moved towards my own house

I stepped over him nervously and moved on up the hill

Across the light, great black shapes moved busily backwards and forwards.

I closed the door noiselessly and moved nearer the window

As the dawn grew brighter, we moved back from the window where we had watched and went very quietly downstairs.

We reached the woods at the foot of the hill and moved through these towards the road

The ground moved and a heavy explosion shook the air, smashing two or three windows in the houses and leaving us shocked.

Their metal bodies shone in the sun as they moved forwards to the guns

The stones under my feet were muddy and slippery, and the river was so low that I moved perhaps seven metres before I could get under the surface

It hit a church tower, knocking it down, then moved on and fell into the river out of sight.

It ended with the words, 'Although they seem frightening, the Martians have not moved from the pit into which they have fallen, and don't seem able to do so.'

Yellow lights moved around in the houses

They moved forwards slowly and carefully towards Ripley and Weybridge, and so came in sight of the waiting guns

These Martians moved in a line, perhaps two kilometres apart

The figure of the Martian grew smaller as it moved away, and soon it was hidden by the mist and the coming night

The ends of the curve slowly moved apart, until at least they formed a line about twelve kilometres long.

All through the night their tubes moved forwards

By midday a cloud of slowly sinking Black Smoke had moved along the Thames, cutting off all escape across the bridges

If the Martians had only wanted destruction, they could have killed the whole population of London on Monday, as it moved out slowly through the neighboring countryside

And over the blue hills to the south of the river, the Martians moved backwards and forwards, calmly spreading their poison clouds over one piece of country and then over another

It was the first Martian that my brother had seen, and he stood, more amazed than frightened, as it moved steadily towards the ships, walking further and further into the water

This hit its left side and sent up a black cloud that the ship moved away from

They saw the three thin figures separating and rising out of the water as they moved back towards the shore, and one of them raised the box that fired his Heat-Ray

Everyone moved to the side of the steamboat and looked to the west, but smoke rose and blocked the sun

In the last two chapters I have moved away from my own adventures to tell of the experiences of my brother

The Black Smoke moved slowly towards the river all through Monday morning, slowly getting nearer and nearer to us, coming at last along the road outside the house that hid us.

Our situation was so strange and unbelievable that for three or four hours, until the dawn came, we hardly moved

When we saw that, we moved as slowly as possible out of the grey light of the kitchen and into the darkness of the hall.

I told the curate that I was going to look for food, and moved back into the kitchen again

I touched the curate's leg, and he moved so suddenly that some bricks slid down outside with a loud crash

It may be that on Mars they moved around on them quite easily.

I moved away from the hole, put my hands over my ears and ran into the hall

In the end I moved between him and the food and told him that I was going to take control.

I could not stop myself - I moved to the door and looked back into the kitchen

I shut the door and moved back into the hall and tried to hide myself in the corner

Then I heard a faint metallic sound as the tentacle moved back across the kitchen floor

It moved the handle up and down for a moment, and then the door opened.

For a time it did not move, then it moved back through the door.

I heard it go into the food cupboard, It moved the tins and a bottle broke

I moved forwards, saying, 'Good dog!' very softly, but it suddenly pulled his head back and disappeared.

A gentle wind moved the flowers

Here I moved through areas which had been totally destroyed and others which were totally undamaged; houses with their curtains and their doors closed

I moved slowly because I was very tired and my plans were uncertain

Wondering about all that I had seen, I moved on towards Primrose Hill

She moved back quickly with fright.

I saw him looking at the church, as we passed near it, so I moved the boat suddenly, and Harris's cap fell into the water

Harris moved a bit and said, 'I'll be downstairs in a minute

I held on to the branch of a tree as I moved to the water

The river here is very dirty, so we moved on to Streatley

We moved slowly along the river

I climbed out of the window and moved along a narrow ledge to the library roof, where I sat down

I moved slowly along the ledge to my bedroom window and climbed back in

'Goodbye, my lady!' I called, as the train moved off.

We have moved to a new house

Marian had told Laura that we had moved to a new house because it was in a nicer part of London

When she was a young woman, she moved to Paris to study

Two years later, Nancy moved to England with her son and her sister Phyllis