Sentence examples for a mot from inspiring English sources

It wasn't straining at the neck, doubt if it even had a MOT.

"It's like I'm lacking something you have," Scott says, fumbling for a mot juste that never comes.

This remark, which enjoyed a brief season as a mot, can only be understood by those who knew Smiley.

Language purists have presumably kept the French from assimiliating terms like "user name" and "password," so I entered an "identifiant" and a "mot de passe".

Occasionally, and usually in an inconvenient place, it drops a mot recherché: Raymond's mother came out of her chair, spitting langrel.

It's the dramatic equivalent of a mot juste, a balance that Mr. Leconte achieves with absorbing regularity in "Man on the Train" (Mitchell).

The RAC points out that an MOT is a guarantee that your vehicle is roadworthy, and without this you alone are responsible for its safe state of repair.

Going to the doctor, for the most part, is like having an MOT or a re-fuel - it doesn't mean you're heading for the scrapheap.

As one participant said, 'Follow-up is like an MOT on a car; it takes one afternoon and if there is anything it will get picked up early rather than too late'.

You get your other ones which are just coming in for a bit of an MOT and regardless of what the score is, they still don't do anything about it.

(HCA5) You get your other ones which are just coming in for a bit of an MOT and regardless of what the score is, they still don't do anything about it.