Synonym: activity, doings, legislation, movement, proposal, proposition, resolution, suggestion. Antonym: inaction, rest. Similar words: promotion, notion, negotiation, motive, motivate, option, action, nation. Meaning: ['məʊʃn] n. 1. a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something 2. the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals 3. a change of position that does not entail a change of location 4. a state of change 5. a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote 6. the act of changing location from one place to another 7. an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object. v. show, express or direct through movement.
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91) His death set in motion a train of events that led to the outbreak of war.
92) We wrote to the passport office to set the whole process in motion.
93) Those in favour of the motion raise your arm. Those against? The motion is carried .
94) After three hours of impassioned debate the motion was defeated.
95) As millions will have seen, by courtesy of the slow motion re-runs, the referee made a mistake.
96) The legislature voted narrowly to table a motion of no-confidence in the government.
97) It only took one phone call to set the wheels in motion.
98) The motion was put to the conference and fully debated.
99) They have tabled a motion for debate at the next Party Conference.
100) The wonderful shots of goals are usually shown again in slow motion.
101) I'd like to propose a motion to move the weekly meetings to Thursdays.
102) She made a fanning motion, pretending to cool herself off.
103) The machine jerked into motion just when we were to give up hope.
104) Those voting for the motion, 96, and those voting against, 54.
105) Film divides motion up into a series of static images.
106) The motion was passed by a vote of 215 to 84.
107) The new director has set a lot of changes in motion in our department.
108) I have submitted the motion to the House of Commons.
109) The motion was accepted/passed/defeated/rejected.
110) Labour quickly moved a closure motion to end the debate.
111) Her sharp[sentencedict.com], aggressive tone set in motion the events that led to her downfall.
112) They stuck out against the motion of reducing the spendings.
113) A study by military experts was immediately set in motion.
114) The Opposition tabled a motion calling for the prime minister's resignation.
115) He pulled the lever and set the machine in motion.
116) The engineers' union was unhappy with the motion, saying it smacked of racism.
117) The slight back and forth motion sent a pounding surge of pain into his skull.
118) The motion stuck as soon as it was put forth.
118) Sentencedict.com is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.
119) Dr Clark tabled a motion for debate at next month's committee meeting.
120) The spaceship's jets were fired periodically to dampen a side-to-side pendulum motion that had developed.
More similar words: promotion, notion, negotiation, motive, motivate, option, action, nation, section, auction, mention, question, portion, fiction, edition, reaction, fraction, location, function, sanction, equation, adoption, reduction, zonation, donation, abortion, addition, formation, operation, national.