Sentence examples for devoting a moment from inspiring English sources

I might have been irritated, but when Michael levied a charge at you, it was worth devoting a moment of introspection to see if it was true.

He did a riff about how we devote a moment of silence to the dearly departed, and why there aren't variations on that theme.

And the Starry One is not necessarily the most talented – Gary Barlow had all the talent in Take That, but after the group split, no one devoted a moment's thought to him for more than a decade.

The warm weather in Sochi may be making it tough on the organizers and athletes who count on good snow and icy conditions, but it's hard to feel anything but jealous when NBC devotes a moment of its coverage to show that the luge track is melting.

We can debate the merits of the bill a little later, but I think it's incumbent upon us, as sentient mammals, to devote a moment to a collective wince.

For the moment this talent is devoted, a bit awkwardly, to internecine political combat.

Sometimes she sat on her back porch in the evening and devoted a few moments of her pondering to imagining fates for Jason.

The company also devoted a few moments of stage time to its new simply titled video wearable, Goggles.

At that moment I had no idea I'd wind up devoting a career to biblical studies.

Perhaps only two weeks after devoting an episode to reactions to the assassination of Martin Luther King, the producers felt devoting significant time to another moment of national mourning might feel repetitive.

At a time when he would be excused for devoting every moment in front of an audience to ensuring his own political survival, the president spent valuable time tackling the scourge of human trafficking -- or what is more precisely called slavery.