How to Use moment by moment in a Sentence

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  • Peter Van Sant: Take me through that, moment by moment.
    CBS News, 2 Oct. 2021
  • The experience of being in the state tournament in 2019 was [taking it] game by game and moment by moment and play by play.
    Eric Bem, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Whether Musk stood in first or second place was often changing moment by moment.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2022
  • People spread the disease by their own decisions, moment by moment, about when, where and how to expose themselves to risk.
    WSJ, 1 Jan. 2021
  • Self-awareness is getting to know yourself, moment by moment.
    Rasmus Hougaard, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Breaking them down moment by moment, each time finding something new.
    Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2021
  • In fact there are probably all sorts of subtle cues around us, influencing our cognitive goals moment by moment.
    Julie Sedivy, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2014
  • The focus is on pleasure, versus needing to perform; to be really in yourself, present in your own experience, moment by moment.
    Joe Lynch, Billboard, 26 Mar. 2021
  • There were TikTok creators who broke down the slap moment by moment, memes on memes, and many arguments about misogynoir and Smith having had to repress his feelings about the moment to be palatable to white audiences for so long.
    Time, 12 Dec. 2022
  • My second response to your question has to do with recognizing and managing our mindsets, moment by moment by moment.
    Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
  • To read old books is not simply to escape our current condition of frenetic standstill, the torrent of data and demand managed moment by moment (though, to my mind, occasional escape is not a bad thing).
    Alan Jacobs, Harper's Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Neural impulses race all over the brain, tying together both distant and adjacent structures moment by moment.
    Jenny Blair, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2015
  • Like a great number of women, Walsh is juggling several roles in perpetuity—motherhood, a career as a writer, the act of doing domestic work—and so figuring out what exactly to embody day to day, moment by moment, is a chore.
    Philippa Snow, The New Republic, 30 Aug. 2022
  • But within their optimal levels, neuromodulators are like secret puppeteers holding the strings of the brain, endlessly shaping circuits and shifting activity patterns into whatever may be most adaptive for the organism, moment by moment.
    Quanta Magazine, 22 Mar. 2022

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