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THE intelligence with which Lestrade greeted us was so momentous and so unexpected, that we were all three fairly dumfoundered.

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 Meanings and Examples of MOMENTOUS
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momentous
 a.  very important; of outstanding significance or consequence
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  It is of moment to her soul, and, therefore, as the worshipful Governor says, momentous to thine own, in whose charge hers is.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
2  I try in vain to recall how I felt about it, and what its circumstances were; but it is not momentous in my recollection.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY
3  The present is one of those momentous stages in the life of man.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27. TOMMY TRADDLES
4  This momentous pocket-book was a timely reminder to him of another transaction.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 57. THE EMIGRANTS
5  THE intelligence with which Lestrade greeted us was so momentous and so unexpected, that we were all three fairly dumfoundered.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
6  And out of his utter, incomprehensible stillness, she felt again the slow momentous, surging rise of the phallus again, the other power.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
7  It is one of the most momentous facts of social science.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
8  Where she could be placed became a subject of most melancholy and momentous consultation.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
9  During the momentous hour that succeeded, the encampment resembled a hive of troubled bees, who only awaited the appearance and example of their leader to take some distant and momentous flight.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
10  Neither were the secondary actors in these momentous incidents forgotten.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
11  In all their wars with other nations, the most momentous battle ever fought by the Romans, was that which they fought with the Latins when Torquatus and Decius were consuls.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVI.
12  It was a momentous and eventful day to all upon our plantation.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I.
13  This announcement, which implied or appeared to imply, the approval of all the persons concerned in this momentous affair, had been preceded by a scene to which our readers must be admitted.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 95. Father and Daughter.
14  Both the sisters seemed struck: not shocked or appalled; the tidings appeared in their eyes rather momentous than afflicting.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
15  I am sure it is only necessary to put before so admirable a practitioner as Dr. Seward so simple, yet so momentous a wish, to ensure its fulfilment.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  The teacher will be down on any little mistake in the article in a moment.
17  There is a moment in every battle at which the least maneuver is decisive and gives superiority as one drop of water causes overflow.
18  Let us assume for a moment that the plan succeeds.
19  Let's assume for a moment that I am a litigant in your court.
20  He dissimulated his intentions right up to the moment of the attack.
21  All the treasures of the earth would not bring back one lost moment.
22  A moment's indecision when you've got the ball and you could lose the game.
23  Don't give up when you still have something to give, because nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.
24  It's really a shame we can't be together at that moment.
25  At the moment it is being presided over by each member in turn.
26  We are working under extreme pressure at the moment.
27  I'm sorry, she's tied up at the moment.
28  Sometimes you will never know the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
29  The person's value, is decided at the moment of luring.
30  I'm not very popular with my parents at the moment.